Lt Colonel
8th Infantry Battalion∼William Kinsey Bolton was 52 years old, married, and employed as a State Government civil servant. He was born in Cheshire, UK, and lived at 52 Webster Street, Ballarat. Just prior to the outbreak of war he was ordered to mobilise the 70th [Ballarat] Infantry and move it to Queenscliff to protect the Queenscliff Fort against enemy attack. While in location defending the fort the opening shot of the war was fired when a German freighter Pfalz tried to escape through the Heads. The battalion arrived in Queenscliff by train on 7th August, and took up its position. It was joined by the 46th [Brighton] Infantry.
Lt Colonel Bolton commanded his battalion at Gallipoli and modern-day maps of the battlefield still show Bolton's Ridge running south from Lone Pine. He developed an agonising medical condition on Gallipoli and wrote to the Brigadier asking to be relieved of command until he had recovered. This was granted, and he was replaced on 14th May 1915 by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Brand. The subsequent medical report indicated that he should be repatriated to Australia and discharged as medically unfit, for his ailment obviously became worse under the stresses of wartime command.
His daughter Ethel May Bolton and son Moore Hunter Bolton both served in the AIF
Memorials: Darlington State School Old Scholars Honour Roll
Lt Colonel
8th Infantry Battalion
Medals Earned
British War Medal
1914-15 Star
Victory Medal
Ballarat Avenue of Honout
Tree Information
Tree No. 1, an elm, was planted by Sir Alexander Peacock, Premier of Victoria, on 4th June 1917.
Species: Ulmus sp.
Plaque: 1
His children; Ethel May Bolton, John Gillies Bolton, Hammersley Garfield Bolton & Moore Hunter Bolton all of whom fought either in father's Battn or elsewhere. Together with their father were known as the "Fighting Boltons!"
8th Infantry Battalion∼William Kinsey Bolton was 52 years old, married, and employed as a State Government civil servant. He was born in Cheshire, UK, and lived at 52 Webster Street, Ballarat. Just prior to the outbreak of war he was ordered to mobilise the 70th [Ballarat] Infantry and move it to Queenscliff to protect the Queenscliff Fort against enemy attack. While in location defending the fort the opening shot of the war was fired when a German freighter Pfalz tried to escape through the Heads. The battalion arrived in Queenscliff by train on 7th August, and took up its position. It was joined by the 46th [Brighton] Infantry.
Lt Colonel Bolton commanded his battalion at Gallipoli and modern-day maps of the battlefield still show Bolton's Ridge running south from Lone Pine. He developed an agonising medical condition on Gallipoli and wrote to the Brigadier asking to be relieved of command until he had recovered. This was granted, and he was replaced on 14th May 1915 by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Brand. The subsequent medical report indicated that he should be repatriated to Australia and discharged as medically unfit, for his ailment obviously became worse under the stresses of wartime command.
His daughter Ethel May Bolton and son Moore Hunter Bolton both served in the AIF
Memorials: Darlington State School Old Scholars Honour Roll
Lt Colonel
8th Infantry Battalion
Medals Earned
British War Medal
1914-15 Star
Victory Medal
Ballarat Avenue of Honout
Tree Information
Tree No. 1, an elm, was planted by Sir Alexander Peacock, Premier of Victoria, on 4th June 1917.
Species: Ulmus sp.
Plaque: 1
His children; Ethel May Bolton, John Gillies Bolton, Hammersley Garfield Bolton & Moore Hunter Bolton all of whom fought either in father's Battn or elsewhere. Together with their father were known as the "Fighting Boltons!"
Lt Colonel
8th Infantry Battalion∼William Kinsey Bolton was 52 years old, married, and employed as a State Government civil servant. He was born in Cheshire, UK, and lived at 52 Webster Street, Ballarat. Just prior to the outbreak of war he was ordered to mobilise the 70th [Ballarat] Infantry and move it to Queenscliff to protect the Queenscliff Fort against enemy attack. While in location defending the fort the opening shot of the war was fired when a German freighter Pfalz tried to escape through the Heads. The battalion arrived in Queenscliff by train on 7th August, and took up its position. It was joined by the 46th [Brighton] Infantry.
Lt Colonel Bolton commanded his battalion at Gallipoli and modern-day maps of the battlefield still show Bolton's Ridge running south from Lone Pine. He developed an agonising medical condition on Gallipoli and wrote to the Brigadier asking to be relieved of command until he had recovered. This was granted, and he was replaced on 14th May 1915 by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Brand. The subsequent medical report indicated that he should be repatriated to Australia and discharged as medically unfit, for his ailment obviously became worse under the stresses of wartime command.
His daughter Ethel May Bolton and son Moore Hunter Bolton both served in the AIF
Memorials: Darlington State School Old Scholars Honour Roll
Lt Colonel
8th Infantry Battalion
Medals Earned
British War Medal
1914-15 Star
Victory Medal
Ballarat Avenue of Honout
Tree Information
Tree No. 1, an elm, was planted by Sir Alexander Peacock, Premier of Victoria, on 4th June 1917.
Species: Ulmus sp.
Plaque: 1
His children; Ethel May Bolton, John Gillies Bolton, Hammersley Garfield Bolton & Moore Hunter Bolton all of whom fought either in father's Battn or elsewhere. Together with their father were known as the "Fighting Boltons!"
8th Infantry Battalion∼William Kinsey Bolton was 52 years old, married, and employed as a State Government civil servant. He was born in Cheshire, UK, and lived at 52 Webster Street, Ballarat. Just prior to the outbreak of war he was ordered to mobilise the 70th [Ballarat] Infantry and move it to Queenscliff to protect the Queenscliff Fort against enemy attack. While in location defending the fort the opening shot of the war was fired when a German freighter Pfalz tried to escape through the Heads. The battalion arrived in Queenscliff by train on 7th August, and took up its position. It was joined by the 46th [Brighton] Infantry.
Lt Colonel Bolton commanded his battalion at Gallipoli and modern-day maps of the battlefield still show Bolton's Ridge running south from Lone Pine. He developed an agonising medical condition on Gallipoli and wrote to the Brigadier asking to be relieved of command until he had recovered. This was granted, and he was replaced on 14th May 1915 by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Brand. The subsequent medical report indicated that he should be repatriated to Australia and discharged as medically unfit, for his ailment obviously became worse under the stresses of wartime command.
His daughter Ethel May Bolton and son Moore Hunter Bolton both served in the AIF
Memorials: Darlington State School Old Scholars Honour Roll
Lt Colonel
8th Infantry Battalion
Medals Earned
British War Medal
1914-15 Star
Victory Medal
Ballarat Avenue of Honout
Tree Information
Tree No. 1, an elm, was planted by Sir Alexander Peacock, Premier of Victoria, on 4th June 1917.
Species: Ulmus sp.
Plaque: 1
His children; Ethel May Bolton, John Gillies Bolton, Hammersley Garfield Bolton & Moore Hunter Bolton all of whom fought either in father's Battn or elsewhere. Together with their father were known as the "Fighting Boltons!"
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