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A SPION KOP MAN IN TROUBLE.
Thomas Bolton (34), a soldier who carried his arm in a sling and wore a medal, was charged with being drunk and incapable in Chapel-street on Monday. - P.C. (15) Todd said prisoner was helplessly drunk in the ladies room at Chapel-street station. He would not go away and was locked up. - Prisoner admitted that he was drunk, and added that he fought at Spion Kop. He was shot in the arm and elsewhere, and was bandaged almost everywhere. - He was discharged.

(The Formby Times, June 16, 1900)

Do we know if he really was at Spion Kop, and, if so, what regiment he fought with? Chapel Street was the old name for Southport railway station, then in Lancashire, now in Merseyside.