BORN HULL NOVEMBER, 1893. SON OF MAUD M BOLTON THIS ADDRESS. FROM THE AGE OF 14, HE WORKED FOR MR J SPRING, FISH CURER, ENGLISH STREET. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 07/10/1914. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. WAS DUE HOME ON LEAVE WHEN REPORTED MISSING ON 13TH NOVEMBER 1916. KNOWN AS ‘SAM’. HE WAS MARRIED AND LIVED AT 4 EMMA TERRACE, MARMADUKE STREET & 4 PRIMROSE VIEW, HAVELOCK STREET. HIS DAUGHTER MARGARET DIED OF PNEUMONIA ON 03/11/1918. REPORTED MISSING IN THE HULL DAILT MAIL, ON 11/12/1916. * SAM’S DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 12TH NOVEMBER 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. CPL SAMUEL BOLTON 12/1027. Born in November 1893, Samuel was one of ten children and the eldest son of Samuel and Maud Bolton of 46 Goulton Street, Hessle Road, Hull. A Fish Worker on the city’s vibrant docks by trade, he downed tools to join the fight for King and Country enlisting at City Hall on 7th October 1914 and joining the fledgling 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. He married Doris Bradshaw on 24th July 1915, but their time together was short as training hauled him off to various base camps before the Pals shipped from Devonport just before Christmas bound for Alexandria, Egypt. Arriving in France the following March, Samuel left the trenches for training at base camp and the promotion from Private to Corporal. Samuel Bolton, like so many of the Originals of the 12th, was killed in action on 13th November 1916 at Serre on the Somme. He is buried in Euston Road Cemetery; he was 23 years old. Doris Bolton’s misery was compounded when their only child, Margaret died of pneumonia on 3rd November 1918.
