Letters from Stephen Philip Boulton to his Family, 1915

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Accession Number RCDIG0000206
Collection number 1DRL/0138
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 38
Object type Letter
Physical description 197 Image/s captured
Maker Boulton, Stephen Philip
Place made At sea, Egypt, Greece: Aegean Islands, Imbros, Malta: Malta (island), Sliema, Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London, United Kingdom: England, Wiltshire, Salisbury Plain, Western Front
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Description

Original and typed copies of letters relating to the First World War service of 3872 Gunner Stephen Philip Boulton, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade. These letters were written by Stephen Boulton to his Family in Sydney, NSW, between February and 31 December 1915. In these letters, Boulton describes the voyage to Aden, his work with horses aboard the ship, camp life in Egypt, the varying news coming from Gallipoli, his anticipation at embarking for the peninsula and life in the trenches. He also complains about the level of censorship applied to soldiers' letters and, after a bout of dysentery, Boulton discusses the conditions of convalescence in Malta. Both the original letters and typewritten copies were made available to the Australian War Memorial in 1928 by Boulton's mother, Mrs Dora Boulton.
This file contains:
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, [c. February 1915] [original and typed];
Typed letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, [c.February 1915];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, [c. February 1915] [original and typed];
Typed letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, February 1915;
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 4 April 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 4 April 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 9 April 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 15 May 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 27 May 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 7 June 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 9 June 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 20 June 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 30 June 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 12 July 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 24 July 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 30 July 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to Billy, 30 July 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 16 August 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 3 September 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 11 September 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 15 September 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 19 September 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 25 September 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 4 October 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 7 October 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 16 October 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 23 October 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 30 October 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 6 November 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 7 November 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 14 November 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 19 November 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 26 November 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 3 December 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 9 December 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his mother, 17 December 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to 'Gran' and 'Aunt Mog', 18 December 1915 [original and typed];
Letter from Stephen Boulton to his Family, 31 December 1915 [original and typed].