William Henry Bolton
Private 17861
6^th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment 

Division 66
Extension

William Henry Bolton was the son of Frederick and Caroline Bolton, of Shinfield Road, Reading.  He is commemorated on the kerbs of the family grave in the Reading Cemetery. The grave number is 18155; the Berkshire Family History Society classification is 66E7.

 William Bolton died of spotted fever (Meningitis) and is buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery. Location I.P.18A.  Wimereux was the Headquarters of the Q.M.A.A.C. and in 1919 the General Headquarters of the British Army.  Wimereux formed an important hospital centre which would account for William Bolton dying there. Due to ground subsidence in this cemetery the headstones are laid flat .

Lt.-Col. John McCrae, a Canadian doctor and poet is also buried in this cemetery.  He is famous for the poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’.  Unusually the headstones in the British portion of this cemetery are laid flat.