Name
William John Bolton
May 1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5075
London Regiment *1
1st/23rd ( County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 9 D 9 C 13 C and 12 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
William John Bolton was born in May 1895 in Bishop's Stortford to William and Agnes Bolton. He was baptised on 11 September 1895 at Harrow Green, Essex and went to Somerford Street School, Tower Hamlets, London. On the 1901 and 1911 Census, the family were living at 16 Gordon Road, Leyton where his father was a railway foreman.
He enlisted in Leyton, Essex, where the family had been living on both the 1901 and 1911 Censuses.
Wartime Service
He was killed during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette.
Additional Information
His father William received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £2 5s 1d.
*1 Believed
more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
