The Bendigo Times, Friday 14 January 1916
(Bendigo, Victoria)

Yesterday the death occurred at his residence, "Eulone," Violet-street, Bendigo, of Mr. Walter Bolitho. He was born in Penzance, Cornwall, in the year 1847, and when quite a young man came to Bendigo. After a few years following mining operations here, he went to New South Wales, where he engaged in agricultural and pastoral pursuits. Being crippled by droughts, etc., he returned to his old occupation, and was a successful mining manager at Cobar, Girilambone, and Lewis Ponds. When a company decided to work a lease at Ophir, the spot where gold was first discovered in Australia, Mr. Bolitho was appointed manager. However, the speculation proved a failure, and he then returned to Bendigo, where he had resided for the last 18 years. He leaves a widow, four sons, Mr. Walter Bolitho (town engineer at Standerton, Transvaal, South Africa), Mr. Nelson Bolitho (of the management staff of the Central mine, Broken Hill, Sergeant Sydney Bolitho (who was wounded at Gallipoli, and is now accountant in the headquarters office, London) and Private Milton Bolitho (late of the "Bendigo Advertiser" office), A.I.F., Egypt, and three daughters, all of the Education, but now married - Mrs. R. Collier, Parkes, N.S.W.; Mrs. Wooding, Corowa N.S.W., and Mrs. W Sutherland, Lowan.

Contributed by Bob Bolitho