He was the son of an English man and an Aboriginal woman [239: Tree 3]
Member of the New Norcia Mission Rovers Football Club in 1909 [9: 2-Jul-1909]
Member of the Wanderers Football Club in Moora in 1913 and 1914 [9: 24-Jul-1914] [120: 28-Jul-1949]
The Wanderers Football Club was an all-Aboriginal team which competed in the Moora Football Association [120: 28-Jul-1949]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1922-23 [9: 15-Dec-1922]
He captained a team of Aboriginal men from Carnamah who narrowly lost to the Three Springs Cricket Club on 10 December 1922 [9]
Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'W. Bolton' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 26 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/w-bolton [reference list] |
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