THE LATE TROOPER HAROLD JOSEPH BOOTH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue VI, 10 February 1900, Page 261

THE LATE TROOPER HAROLD JOSEPH BOOTH.

Trooper Booth, of the New Zealand contingent, who was killed the other day in the action near Rensberg, belonged to the North Otago Mounted Rifles, which corps he joined in June, 1895. He was then the youngest recruit in the ranks. Coming straight from the Dunedin High School Cadets, he bore the reputation for being a first-class shot, and that reputation lie continued to hold. A few days before he left with the contingent for the Transvaal he fired for the marksman’s badge and put up a possible at two ranges out of three. On the following day he won the Troopers’ Champion

Cape, ami was leading for the Troopers' Champion Belt. Personally, young Booth, who was just 21 years old at the time of his death, was a great favourite. He was known as “Happy-go-lucky Harold, and was always in requisition at camp revels. His loss will certainly be severely felt among his comrades in Africa, as well as among his relatives and friends in the colony. Booth was acting as General Clements’ orderly, and was holding the General's horse when he was killed by a shell.