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Name: BOLTON, Claude Leslie MC (Lieut.-Col.)

Birth Date: 27 Dec 1889 Calcutta

Death Date: 20 Jan 1951 Kitale

First Date: 1918

Last Date: 1951

Profession: Farmer

Area: 'Kimala Estate', Soy Kitale

Married: Charlotte May de la Harpe b. 10 Feb 1893 Bethlehem, Free State, S. Africa

Children: Elizabeth Joan (Ross) (11 Mar 1923 Kitale-14 May 1998 Bournemouth); Kenneth (30 July 1924 Kitale)

Book Reference: EAWL, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Pioneer Spirit, Barnes

War Service: RFA

General Information:

Source: Mrs J. Ross
Pioneer Spirit - Gareth M-Barberton - In my early years I had a friend named Ken Bolton who lived on a nearby farm. We would meet often, particularly on the weekly visit to town. Friday was the farmers' day when they would forgather in the Kitale Hotel …… Ken and I went to the only secondary school in the Colony the Prince of Wales school in Nairobi. We were friends and rivals in everything. ……….. Years later when I was reading medicine at Oxford I learned that he had been senselessly killed when someone ran into the back of his car.
Kitale cemetery - died 20 Jan 1951, in loving memory / of / Lt Colonel C L Bolton M.C., R.F.A. / died 20th January 1951
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Plateau North - Major Claude Leslie Bolton, Farmer
Gazette 13 Nov 1951 probate

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