ROLL OF HONOUR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7555, 22 March 1917, Page 2

ROLL OF HONOUR.

Yesterday morning Mr Booker, ui Winchester, received a telegram from the Hon. James Allen, stadingj that his son, 7/1782, Private T. E. Booker, had been accidentally: tolled, and expressing th# Minister’s sympathy with Mr Booker in the loss ho and ids family and the country had sustained. Telegrams were also received from His Excellency the Governor expressing the sympathy of their Majesties the King and Queen, and another expressing his own feelings'. Private Booker was a lino young fellow, who enlisted when he was only 16 years of age, being anxious to join his brother, Trooper Ernest G. Booker, who was already at the front-. He went away with the -lib Reinforcements, landing in Egypt. His stay in Egypt was short —three days only'—and with the othen reinforcements he then went on to Gallipoli, where, with the exception of a few days, when he was slclt with dysejitry, he stayed until the evacuation. Since then he has remained In France. IHe jwas irf the thick of the fighting on the Somme, working as a sirretcher-beavror, ami Ids last letter to his parents speaks of the fearful carnage there, llcwj right in the midst of it; yet ho came through safely His • last letter was written in the most cheerful spirit. At the time of his death he was 20 years of age, having been two years at the front. His brother, Trooper G, E. Booker, was only 21when'ho was killed. He went away with Iho Main Body', and lost his life at Gallipoli.