William E. Bolton
Private 8341
1st Batt. The Cameronians Scottish Rifles
War Plot
Division 71 and 72
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William Ernest Bolton’s family lived at The Commercial Hall, Coley, Reading at the time that William’s death was registered with the CWGC. Family information has been obtained from Ancestry UK. The 1911 census indicates that his father was Henry James Bolton and his mother Louisa Bolton, his sister called May, who was four years younger. In 1911 the family home at 82 Coley Place, Reading. Father Henry was listed as a wood yard labourer and May was a packer at the biscuit factory. In 1911 William, then 25, was recorded as an unemployed army reservist. In 1901, then aged 15, William was working as a labourer at the tin factory which would have been Huntley Bourne and Stevens. It is assumed that William was recalled to the colours as soon as war was declared but no military record exists to confirm this. William and May had two other siblings but no information has been found about them.
William died on February 9th 1917, of wounds received in action. He had been in hospital at Northampton War Hospital. He was 30. William Bolton has no headstone in the war plot but his name is commemorated on the screen wall.
Notice of death was published in the Standard 24th February 1917.