About Charles Bolton
Lived 1882 – 1963 (aged 81). Charles Bolton was a rugby union player.
Charles Arthur Bolton (3 January 1882 – 23 November 1963) was a British Army officer and an English international rugby union player.
Biography Born in Kensington, Bolton was educated at Marlborough College and New College, Oxford.
Bolton played rugby for United Services and was called up by England as a reserve for their match against the 1908–09 Wallabies, before gaining his only cap in a win over France at Leicester, utilised as a wing-forward.
A brigadier in the British Army, Bolton was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919.
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Who was Charles Bolton?
rugby player
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Charles Bolton was born on 3 January 1882.
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Charles Bolton died on 23 November 1963.
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Charles Bolton was a rugby union player.
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· DBpedia: Charles Bolton (British Army officer)
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