Private John English Bolton
John English Bolton was born on 16 May 1883 at Ballyscolly, Lisburn, County Antrim, the fifth of six children of National School teacher John English Bolton and his wife Sarah (née Gibson). By 1912 he was working in Liverpool, Lancashire, as a teacher. On 24 July that year he married Anna Deane in the Great Victoria Street Presbyterian Church, Belfast. The couple had three children over the next eight years.
Bolton enlisted in the North Irish Horse between 6 and 18 May 1916 (No.2170 or 2171 – later Corps of Hussars No. 71706). In January 1918 he embarked for Egypt with a draft of North Irish Horsemen from the regimental reserved depot at Antrim. There he was attached to the 1/1st Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers). He served with that regiment in the Palestine campaign for the remainder of the war.
On 7 April 1919 Bolton was demobilised and transferred to Class Z, Army Reserve.
After the war he returned to work as a school teacher in Liverpool. At the time of the 1939 Register he was living at 210 Brodie Avenue with his wife and two of his children. He died in Liverpool on 8 May 1967 and was buried in the Anfield Cemetery.