Brigadier Eric Leslie Booth, DSO & Bar, ED (April 21, 1904 – August 14, 1944) was a Canadian Army officer.
[2] Joining the Canadian Militia in the peacetime years, Booth was an officer with The Mississauga Horse of Toronto and later the 2nd/10th Dragoons of Hamilton until the outbreak of war in 1939.
Joining the 1st Hussars of London, he proceeded overseas where later he was attached to the British Army's 17th Lancers as the regiment's second-in-command and served in the North African Campaign under General Montgomery.
During operations in Normandy on August 8, 1944, Major General George Kitching, unable to reach Booth by radio, found him drunk in his tank.
Booth was killed on August 14, when his tank was hit by German artillery during Operation Tractable.