Lieutenant Colonel

Lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies and most marine forces and some air forces of the world, typically ranking above a major and below a colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to simply "colonel" in conversation and in unofficial correspondence...

 William Kinsey Bolton CBE

Order of the British Empire

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 VD

Volunteer Decoration

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 (2 November 1861 – 8 September 1941) was the commanding officer of the Australian 8th Battalion

Australian 8th Battalion

The 8th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. Initially raised in 1914 for the First Australian Imperial Force during the First World War the battalion was completely recruited from Victoria and formed the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division. During the war it fought at Gallipoli and in...

 AIF during World War I

World War I

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 for the landings at Gallipoli

Gallipoli

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 on 25 April 1915. He was a Nationalist

Nationalist Party of Australia

The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

 Senator

Australian Senate

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 from Victoria from 1917 to 1923.

Sources

• Lieutenant Colonel William Kinsey Bolton, CBE, VD
• Australian War Memorial
• The 2nd Brigade on the 400 Plateau Chapter 17 of Official Histories – First World War

Volume I – The Story of ANZAC from the outbreak of war to the end of the first phase of the Gallipoli Campaign, 4 May 1915 (11th edition, 1941)
C E W Bean

• Official Histories – First World War

Volume I – The Story of ANZAC from the outbreak of war to the end of the first phase of the Gallipoli Campaign, 4 May 1915 (11th edition, 1941)
C E W Bean