Solicitor

Family :

Education & Career :

Harrow, Trinity College Oxford. Solicitor

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

9 April - 29 April 1918. As the first phase of the great German campaign of 1918 lost momentum and failed in its objective to split the British and French armies, subsidiary attacks were shift the balance of the attack and to seek opportunities to exploit other sectors. On the Lys the Germans initially enjoyed spectacular success against a Portuguese Division but the gap was soon plugged and the advance halted.

Detail :

LIEUTENANT E. T. BOLTON Suffolk Regiment HARROW 97^-02' Aged 34 April l0th, 1918 Second son of the late Edward Bolton, and of his wife, Charlotte Mary Bolton, of 1 1 West Eaton Place, S.W. Trinity College, Oxford, B.A., 1905. Solicitor, Yeoman of the City of London, Liveryman of the Skinners' Company : for some years acted as Secretary of the Old Harrovian Football Club. His brother. Sergeant W. S. Bolton (O.H.), Royal Fusiliers, a notice of whom appears in Volume VI, died of pneumonia in London, a week after the signing of the Armistice, having served since the second day of the War. Married Elsie Nisbet, only daughter of Mr. Nisbet, of Liverpool. Lieutenant Bolton joined the 23rd Royal Fusiliers as a Private and went to the Front with them in November, 1915. He was given a Commission in the Suffolk Regiment in the following September and was wounded at the Battle of Arras on April 9th, 1917. He returned to the Front five months afterwards, being gazetted Lieutenant just before his death. He acted as Intelligence Officer to his Battalion. He was killed on April l0th, 1918, at La Rolanderie Farm, near Erquinghem, west of Armentieres. His Colonel wrote to his widow : ? I cannot tell you how deeply grieved I am at the loss of your husband. He did splendidly on March 20th and 2ist, and again on April 9th and loth. The Chaplain wrote to his brother : ? When your brother fell he was at the top of the trench, engaged in thinning out the men to lessen casualties. Your brother had all the characteristics which made up the human side of the soldier beneath a natural modesty. 1 found him to be extraordinarily kind to his men, and generous to his brother-officers. He was a merry soldier, but very much in earnest. I have heard him make remarks in very trying times which put heart in all around him. A brother-officer wrote to his widow : ? My admiration for your husband was unbounded. I do not know any more splendid war record than his. His last act was for others ; the enemy were very close and our line thin in places ; he was getting things square, and had just done so, when he was hit.

Masonic :

Junior Deacon

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley