Coulter Family

Correspondence relating to the service of the four Coulter brothers: Lieutenant Sydney Richard Coulter (5th Victorian Mounted Regiment), killed in South Africa, 27 August 1901; Sergeant Jason Leslie Boyd Coulter (8 Battalion), died of wounds, 5 October 1915; Major Leslie J Coulter DSO (3rd Australian Tunnelling Company) who was killed in action, 29 June 1917 and Lieutenant Colonel Graham Coulter who served in South Africa, the First World War, in which he was awarded a DSO, and the Second World War. Also, citations, obituaries, photographs and annotated transcript of Lt Sydney Coulter's South African War diary and the First World War correspondence of Ivy Smith to various Australians in France. Additional item: 15 pp bound commemorative booklet titled 'The Uncles I Never Knew', written by Rachel Biven, comprising summary biographies, deeply felt comments and character sketches of her five uncles (four of whom served in the Australian Military Forces), based on family records, correspondence and photographs.