WW1 7th Bn Australian Imperial Forces Gallipoli Casualty.
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WW1 7th Bn Australian Imperial Forces Gallipoli Casualty.
Comprising:
British War Medal, “956 PTE A BOOT 7 BN AIF”
Memorial Scroll “PTE ARTHUR BOOT 7TH Bn A.I.F.
Buckingham Palace Forwarding Certificate.
These contained in original card tube addressed to Mr G A Boot of Nottingham
Nottingham School Board Medallion “A Boot”
Private Arthur Boot of Nottingham served 4 years with a Royal Horse Artillery Territorial unit before emigrating to Australia. He volunteered on the 3rd September 1914 joining the 7th Bn AIF. He embarked for the Middle East on the 19th October 1914. The 7th Landed at Gallipoli on the 25th April 1915.
He is believed to have been wounded during the landing on the 25th April 1915 with a bullet wound to the head, and was evacuated to No15 General Hospital before embarking to England on the Hospital ship SS Nevasa noted as Dangerously ill he succumbed to his wounds on the 27th May 1915 and was buried at sea.
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