Brigadier Leslie Booth
12th (Three Rivers) Tank Regiment
4th Armoured Brigade

It was strange but at about the time that Simonds and I were discussing that problem I became convinced that Boothie had a premonition that he would be killed. He certainly was not the same keen and cheerful man of the year before in Sicily … I looked for him to hear what was wrong,

(Kitching, Mud and Green Field, 213)

Born in Lancaster, England on 21 April 1906, Eric Leslie Booth was engineer for the Bell Telephone Company and prewar militia officer with the Mississauga Horse. In September 1939, he enlisted with the 1st Hussars, later redesignated the 6th Armoured Regiment, and went overseas as a major in late 1941. He served for several months as second-in-command of the 17th Lancers in North Africa before being appointed to command the 12th Tank (Three Rivers) Regiment in April 1943.

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