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George H Bolton, Grantchester

The Fields, Bridle Way, Grantchester

History of the Fields

Precise location unknown

George Henry Bolton: b 1886, d 1916. George was chauffeur to William Mirrlees of 11 Cranmer Road. At the outbreak of WWI he enlisted in the 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. The circumstances of his death in France 22nd May 1916, age 29, are unknown.

Walter Bolton, Grantchester

Walter Bolton: b 1895, d. 1916. He joined the 1st Cambridge Regiment and was sent to France in July 1915. He was wounded in June 1916 but returned to the front and was killed on 9th November. The exact circumstances of his death are unknown. It was probably during the Battle of Ancre, last main British attack of the Battle of the Somme.

John Bolton of Harlton moved to Grantchester in the 1870s. His son Alfred (1860-1935) married Julia Carter living at 4 The Green then Merton Farm Cottage (in 1911) and finally The Fields. Of their five children, Emily died in 1911 aged 26, George and Walter were killed in France, Edwin was wounded in France and then in Mesopotamia but survived and returned to marry and have four children; Maud remained in the vollage until she died in 1978.

(Source, World War I, Francis Burkitt, 2020)

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