The Scotsman - Friday 30 July 1920 CENOTAPH UNVEILED BY THE DUKE The Duke of York visited the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Show at Bolton yesterday, when thousands of operatives on holiday gave him an enthusiastic welcome . On the way to the show the Duke unveiled a cenotaph which has been erected in the centre of the town to men of the Third East Lancashire Brigade Royal Field Artillery , which was the first unit to fire a shot in the war . Discharged soldiers presented a petition to the Duke urging increased perisions.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Friday 30 July 1920 VISIT OF THE DUKE OF YORK.

The Book of Bolton, 1929, Industry, Bolton's Industry, Its Story and Romcance, page 48

Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 09 October 1953 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000712/19531009/146/0007 WAR MEMORIAL THE Bolton Artillery War Memorial, which is in the form of a Cenotaph in Nelson Square Bolton was erected to commemorate the 1914-8 War and has a bronze plaque afflxed to it with the names of those who fell In World War I. It is proposed to affix a similar plaque with the names of those who died in the 1939-45 War, and as the War Office Record Departments cannot supply the names of men and women who were killed after transfer from the Bolton Artillery to other branches of the Services, appeal to the public Is necessary to get the Information All who had relatives or friends who lost their lives, during the period August 25, 1939, to August 14th, 1945, whlle serving with 53 Field Regiment R.A., or 111 Field Regiment R.A., or while serving elsewhere in the Forces of the Crown, after having first served in one or other of 53 Field Regiment, RA., or 111 Field Regiment, R.A., are asked to send particulars to HON SECRETARY, Bolton War Memorial Committee, Drill Hall, Silverwell-street, Bolton