Pilot Officer AF Booth

The Dreaded Telegram

Twenty-six- year- old Pilot Officer A F Booth lost his life during a Dunkirk evacuation patrol on May 29th when his No 235 Squadron Blenheim, one of four squadron losses that day, was shot down off the French coast. Born in Kwa Zulu Natal, Anthony Foster Booth grew up in Johannesburg, served with the British South Africa Police in Southern Rhodesia, joined the RAF and had been a Pilot Officer for two months when he lost his life. His parents Alan and Maude Booth were living in Rhodesia at the time.