Source: Per service record Oudot, reg. no. 53149.
Family Search: When Sergeant Hammersley Garfield Bolton was born on 26 March 1884, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, his father, Lt. Col. William Kinsey Bolton, was 23 and his mother, Jane Morpeth Gillies, was 24. He married Kathleen Smith in 1924, in Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 30, his occupation is listed as draughtsman. He died on 14 December 1940, in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 56, and was buried in Ballarat Old Cemetery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 