Thanks for viewing our gallery. These images are mostly dedicated to Bolton, we have researched via Facebook and attributed as best we can.
Three bolton Roma boys off to fight in ww1, names on reverse L-R Nathan, Saul and fred. 1915. Scribbled note on reverse Saul and Fred died at dantzig alley. 1916.facebook/Michael Augustus Shepherdson
Bolton WW1 Supply Depot/facebook
WW1 Multi Nation Flag Postcard Bolton Museum/mark hampson/facebook
Andrew robinson/facebook
Woman munition worker/facebook/mark hampson. She probably worked with TNT for most of her work, that was what turned their skin yellow, and earned their nickname Canary Girls.
WW1 Memorial Board today – Bolton Municipal School.
Bolton Road United Reformed Church WW1 Memorial.
© IWM (HU 120754)/facebook/ WW1- The Great War
Remembering those who served In memory of Second Lieutenant Keith Saxby Curtis of the 14th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment who was killed in action 100 years ago today. He was from , Bolton, Lancashire and was once a Private in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He gained his commission as 2nd Lt on July 31st 1917.
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May 3rd 1917.Lieutenant Herbert Frederick Bolton of the South Lancashire Regiment attached Machine Gun Corps dies of wounds at the age of 22. He is the son of the Reverend Frederick Bolton Vicar of St George’s Darwen.
(not Bolton related but a sad story.)/facebook/ WW1- The Great War Remembering those who served Private Edward Bolton (Cheshire Regiment) is shot at dawn for desertion. In a strange twist, while under a commuted and suspended sentence of death for a previous offense Private Bolton was allowed home leave in December 1915 and when his leave was over he remained at home and had even taken up civilian employment under a false name. He was arrested and returned to the Arras front, where he was executed in Roclincourt Valley.
Facebook/in and around Bolton photos Norfolk street just before ww1.
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Picture From: Bolton Library
Pictured: 55th (West Lancashire) Division. A signals company, posed with equipment. Linked to the Royal North Lancs Regiment. The men are wearing the Loyals Badge in their Caps. 1915.
Facebook WW1 war memorial Christ church Heaton, Chorley new road.
Facebook WW1 grenade made in Bolton. Dobson and Barlow, Kay St.
Facebook/ https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/3131496 Captain Harry Morris was killed in action 100 years ago today aged 26, and is buried at Bedford House Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. Harry was the only son of Nathaniel, who was a retired hotel keeper from Bolton and Bertha Morris. Harry was educated at Kilgrimol School, St Annes and Wellington (now Wrekin) College, Salop. In 1911 the family was living at 41 South Drive, St Annes and Harry was a civil engineering student. Following this he joined the staff of Mr. Lomax, Civil Engineer of Manchester. In September 1914 he enlisted with the Public Schools Battalion of the Royal Engineers and in 1915 was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant,later progressing to the rank of Captain. In 1915 he married the younger daughter of Sir H.W. Trickett and Lady Trickett of Merlewood, Rossendale, known locally as “the Slipper King”. There was considerable confusion about Harry’s death. On 2nd November 1917 the St Annes Express reported that his wife had received official notification of Harry’s death on October 26th. However, the following week’s edition cast doubt on this by saying that he had been seen on the battlefield with a wound to the hip and it was thought that he may have been taken prisoner. Sadly the 16th November’s edition confirmed his death. A brother officer had written to say that two of Harry’s junior officers and two of his corporals had confirmed seeing him wounded on the battlefield having received machine gun shots to the legs about two hours after the start of the advance.. One of the Corporals had dressed his wounds and given him a drink of water and a morphia tablet, and left him to be picked up by the stretcher bearers. However, as the Express reports, he later received a bullet to the head which killed him. CWG records indicate that Harry was initially buried in an isolated grave at Zillebeke/Langemarck and was exhumed and reburied on 11th January 1937. His body was identified by a dog-tag, the wounds, and a gold wedding ring inscribed, “From Elsie 22.2.15”.
Facebook/ In today looking back in the Bolton evening news Two brother from Bolton the Greenhalgh brothers who died in ww1 in the battle of the Somme A Lt. Colonel . R Cobbold refers to the Bolton men who so bravely fought As the Bolton men charged forward shouting Bolton Bolton as most of the men was from Bolton charged forward into the battle RIP brave men least we forget. (Peter Haslam Great article but the BN seem to have printed some wrong info. I don’t think there was a 410th Battallion. There was a 10th batt that formed in Preston, but the majority of Bolton lads were in the 1/5 batt and the 2nd 5th both were formed in Bolton.)
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In memory of Sergeant Charles Entwistle Dean of the 28th Battalion, Australian Infantry who lost his life 100 years ago today.
He was the son of William Henry and Elizabeth Adelina Dean, of Charles Street, Midland Junction, Western Australia.
Born in Bolton, England, he worked as a clerk before enlisting on 10th January 1916. He embarked from Fremantle as a Private with the 10th Reinforcements on HMAT Ulysses on 1st April 1916. He was appointed Acting Corporal on 18th November 1916, and this rank was made permanent on 24th January 1917. On 4th June 1917 he was appointed Temporary Sergeant. On 12th December 1917 he was hit by shrapnel when German aircraft bombed Aldershot Camp, near Neuve Eglise. He died of his wounds on the same day. He was 24 years old. His brother,Private Jack Dean, 32nd Battalion, had been killed in action at Fleurbaix on 19 July 1916.
He is commemorated at the V. C. Corner Australian Cemetery.
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December 12th 1916.
Private Robert Dunion of the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders lost his life aged 20, whilst in the front line north west of Bouchavesnes.
Robert was one of the five children of Mark (a police sergeant) and Agnes Dunion, of Grafton Street, Bolton, Lancashire. The family later lived at 9 Bute Street, Bolton.
Educated at Horwich Old Boys’ School he afterwards worked for Messrs. Tillotson and Son, Ltd. and before he enlisted was nearing the completion of his journalistic training. He was connected with Claremont Baptist Church, and was a member of the institute billiard team. He enlisted, under the Derby Scheme, on 7th April 1916 and went to the front in early July. Conveying the news of his death to Robert’s father, his platoon officer said, …He was in every way what a good soldier should be, and kept up a cheery heart under the most trying circumstances, which goes to help others…
Facebook/mark hampson. Horwich Barracks WW1 Photograph probably containing some of the 10 men who died in The Battle of Festuberg May 1915. 5th LNL regiment but I think they were based at Fletcher st. barracks.
Facebook/mark hampson. Bolton Tramways Conductress during WW1 From Bolton Tramways Badges and Buttons.
Facebook/ Bolton town centre WW1, definitely Loyals probably 5th Battalion.
Facebook/mark hampson WW1 Munitions manufacture Horwich Loco Works.
Facebook. Audrey Howarth70’s Bolton 11 July 2012 · My Great Grandad with G Gran and Gran at the fair.He was a sniper in WW1(wonder if he got them a prize).
Derek Moores70’s Bolton · 2 March 2013 ·
WW1 Women munitions’ Workers.
Michael WardI belong to bolton 22 November 2014 · For all those who liked the Navada well this is the man responsible for waxing and keeping that floor just right.My Grandad, Walter Ward,loved him he was the best.And to think that he did all that with 2 bullet’s still lodged in his back from WW1.
Denis McCann I belong to bolton 4 October 2015 · WW1 horses at Doffcocker. Denis McCann The Duke Of Lancaster’s Yeomanry, their predecessors in the days of the militia were The Bolton Light Horse!
Facebook/ Gene WattsWar photo group 11 January · cannot read name on back says 15856 age 19 Bolton 1915
ww1/ Dawfy Bernal Sgt Arthur Charles Bailey. Grenadier Guards. Died 11/10/15. According to WW1 records.
Facebook/ Mark HampsonI belong to bolton 13 July 2016 · Cottage Hospital WW1 Horwich… Barry Jubb That is Matron Jubb, but no relation to me.
Facebook/ Mark Hampson I belong to bolton 23 April 2015 · Spa Road 1918
All Bolton’s schoolchildren celebrate the end of WW1.
Facebook/ Mark Hampson I belong to bolton 31 December 2017 · Vicars Row
Farnworth Residents welcoming WW1 Soldiers back home…….. Karen Hemsley I have this photo ad my granny and great granny are on it. They lived at 20 Vickers Row. They are the farthest from the left standing in the doorway. My great granny is holding my granny in her arms. My granny always said her father went to war a gentleman and came back a mad man. Soo many lives lost and affected by WW1.
Facebook/ Chris Grant 26 June 2016 · Edited · Side view of Swan Lane Mill. Bolton was a 19th-century boomtown, and at its zenith in 1929 its 216 cotton mills and 26 bleaching and dyeing works made it one of the largest and most productive centres of cotton spinning in the world. The British cotton industry declined sharply after WW1, and by the 1980s cotton manufacture had virtually ceased in Bolton.
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Joan Hamblett/facebook
Remembering Harry Warburton my Great Uncle K.I.A Messines Ridge Belgium, 7 June 1917 aged 22.
Lest we forget. 
Karen Jones/facebook
Remembering Walter Morris our Dad, Grandad and Great Grandad,who fought at Passchendaele Ypres and the Somme and only survived because his horse took most of the bomb blast and was killed,but Dad lost fingers and got a head injury from which he suffered black outs for the rest of his life.Also his Brother William Morris who lost his life at the age of 19 after fighting for just 6 months,an uncle we would never know.We must never forget that but for these brave men we would not be living the privileged life we live now.
Peter Haslam/facebook
John Hutchinson my grandad North Lancashire regiment died in the battle of Loos1918 remembered on plaque in all saints church Hindley Wigan Lancashire and at the Loos memorial.
Wayne Molyneux/facebook
Alfred Wilkinson Victoria cross recipient Leigh Lancashire.
Unveiling of a statue to Alfred Wilkinson Victoria cross recipient on the old site of the Bickershaw colliery.
Alfred worked at bickershaw colliery after the war also the place of Alfreds passing in an accident of gas poisoning .
A proud leigh Lancashire moment the placing of Alfred’s statue
Accreditation Paul sergeant for his work putting this together.
Pauline Wright /facebook
Private Benjamin Moss of the Loyal North Regiment, died this day 23/10/1918 aged 18 years. He is commemorated on Panel 89-91 of the Loos Memorial. His name & that of his older brother James Moss who died 21/03/1918 aged 37 years at Arras, are not recorded on any memorial in Bolton .Their bodies were never found. They are my husbands Great Uncles.
Unknown, but so very young!
Harmony Youth Project Bolton WW1 EXHIBITION 
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