Keith William Booth (SN 22082) was born in Ballarat and was just 18, and a grazier, when he enlisted on May 2nd 1916. He trained at Maribyrnong with the 23rd Howitzer Brigade with whom he embarked on the Medic, just three weeks later. He continued training once in England although that was interrupted by a bout of tonsillitis, and two periods of detention arising from charges that he ‘absented himself without leave' and 'refused to obey an order’. In October 1916 he transferred to the 3rd Division Ammunition Column and then, in September 1917, to the 8th Field Artillery Brigade in France and finally to the 3rd Divisional Trench Mortar Battery. After the war he returned to Australia on the Zealandia, reaching Melbourne on June 28th 1919. He died in June 1978 aged 81.

His brother Max also served in the AIF and is honoured with a tree in the Avenue.