Booth,+Maurice


 * Stoker Maurice Booth** of HMS Lion. Service number: SS110814 (Devonport).

One of our 'Jutland 100' - Keighley's Men

1890: Birth, 25th May, registered in Keighley. Parents Moses and Isabella Booth. Father's occupation: Warehouseman. 1891: Census. Aged 11 months, visiting at 24, Gail Street, Mossley, Lancashire, with parents and one brother. 1901: Census. Aged 10 years, living at 25, Wolseley Street, Burley, Headingley, Leeds, with parents, two brothers and one step-brother. 1911: Enlisted in the Royal Navy on 1st April. Trained at HMS Vivid II until 6th October. To HMS Sentinel until March 1912. 1912: Serving on HMS Sentinel until 26th March. Then to Vivid II until 12th April. HMS Devonshire, and becoming Stoker 1st Class. Continued until 1st June then Vivid II again until 3rd June and to HMS Lion. 1915: Serving on HMS Lion. 1916: Killed in action on HMS Lion on 31st May during the Battle of Jutland. Remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 15.

His Father Moses Booth was living at 15 Mount Road, Marsden, Huddersfield.