BOLTON, Joseph Claude
| Service Number: | 4067 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Concord, Canada Bay, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engine Cleaner |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 4 May 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Vaulx Australian Field Ambulance Cemetery Vaulx Australian Field Ambulance Cemetery, Vaulx, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, SN 4067, 18th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 8 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, SN 4067, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Star of England, Sydney |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Joseph Claude BOLTON (Service Number 4067) was born on 14 January 1898 at Eskdale, Victoria. According to his railway records he first worked as a call boy at Eveleigh Depot in February 1913, when he would have been 15-years-old and this is not unreasonable. He enlisted in the AIF on 19 November 1915 when he would have been less than 18-years-old, though he gave his age as 21 years and 10 months. Through his whole railway career until enlistment he remained a call boy.
He embarked from Sydney on 8 March 1916 on HMAT ‘Star of England’ and he joined the 18th Battalion in France in September. He was hospitalised with illness in December 1916 and February 1917 with mumps and on 3 May 1917 he was wounded in action, dying the next day. He is buried at Vaulx Advanced Dressing Station Cemetery, ¼ mile SW of Vaulx, Braucourt, three miles N.E. of Bapaume.
(NAA B2455-3097192)
Submitted 11 May 2023 by John Oakes
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