Cpl. Bolton & his wife Mary Elizabeth
Seated front row third from left
His great nephew, Norman Carless, has provided these photos.
Cpl. Bolton and his wife Mary Elizabeth Gate were married in West Hartlepool.
He was killed in a mine explosion with two other men.
The war diary entry reads:
"During the night one of our parties working in a mine were caught by an enemy raiding party who put a mobile charge into the mine with the result that a corporal and two men were killed, one man is missing and believed to have been taken prisoner."
He is remembered at West Hartlepool on W111.18 W111.32 W111.52 W111.53 and W111.54
