Dalton Family Archives

Sailing for war - Woolloomooloo 1917

Building new railway bridge during training camp at Liverpool, NSW, 1917

Cookhouse fatigue (=duty), Liverpool NSW 1917 [greyscale]

Verso of photo with Bruce Park at Heytesbury church

Bruce Park sitting in front of old Heytesbury church altar

In Limber Gunners' Room [Liverpool Training Camp, NSW 1917] - Bill Brown, Will Dalton, Bill McDonald and Jack Deer

Verso of Photo "In Limber Gunners' Room"

Verso of photo with Wallace and Bruce Park in Heytesbury

[Damaged building Armentières [France]

Wallace and Bruce Park in Heytesbury [about 1918]

Ernie Gilbert in uniform [about 1916]

Ernie Gilbert, Stockton, off to war [about 1916]

L to R - Phil Calley, Tom Davies & Dave Clark off to World War 1, Stockton Congregational Church

Wal West going to war - 1915

Albert Forrest going to war - 1915

Albert Forrest going to war - 1915

Guard duty at Liverpool (Australia). W. Dalton 2nd from right.

Officers and staff, AIF [Artillery?]

Jim Dalton (No. 2468), wounded at Gallipoli, killed at Ypres, October 1917

Crater left after ammunition magazine explosion (Fr) (note man in front of white rock)

Pte. G.S. Upton, just one of 63,000 Australian graves of WWI

Entrance to Barrack Rooms of the [Ferrure] outer fort of (Maubege), masonry destroyed by the enemy in 1914

All snow on the Western Front (1917)

William Dalton

James Dalton

World War I

Transcription of the James Dalton Letters

Letter from James Dalton to his mother, 7 May 1916

Letter 003 - Letter from James Dalton to Harry Dalton, 6 October 1914

Letter 004 - Letter from James Dalton to Jack Dalton, 9 October 1914

Letter 005 - Letter from James Dalton to Harry and Ida Dalton, 11 October 1914

Letter from James Dalton to Jack Dalton, 14 October 1914

Letter 007 - Letter from James Dalton to his mother, 19 October 1914

Letter 007B - Letter from James Dalton to his mother from SS Argyllshire, 22 October 1914

Letter 008 - Letter from James Dalton to Ida and Harry Dalton from SS Argyllshire, 23 October 1914

Letter 009 - Letter from James Dalton to Jack Dalton from SS Argyllshire, Albany, 24 October 1914

Letter 010 - Letter from James Dalton to his mother and to his brother William from SS Argyllshire, Albany, 31 October 1914

Letter 001 - Letter from James Dalton to his mother, October 1914

Letter 002 - Letter from James Dalton to his mother, Thursday October 1914

Letter 011 - Letter from James Dalton to his mother from Colombo, 16 November 1914

Letter 012 - Letter from James Dalton to Ida and Harry Dalton from Colombo, 17 November 1914

Letter 014 - Letter from James Dalton to Jack Dalton from SS Argyllshire near Aden, 23 November 1914

Letter 015 - Letter from James Dalton to Ida and Harry Dalton from SS Argyllshire near Aden, 24 November 1914

Letter 016 - Letter from James Dalton to his mother, from Port Said, 2 December 1914

Letter 017 - Letter from James Dalton to his mother and siblings from Maadi Camp, 15 December 1914

Letter 019 - Letter from James Dalton to Harry Dalton from Maadi Camp, 24 December 1914

Letter from James Dalton to Ida Dalton, 24 January 1916

Letter 020 - Letter from James Dalton to Jack Dalton from Maadi Camp, 26 December 1914

Letter 021 - Letter from James Dalton to Ida Dalton from Maadi Camp, 6 January 1915