Major Lawrence Boulton
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Major D’Arcy Boulton
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Lieutenant Russell Boulton †
Manitoba Depot Regiment 
If sole support of widowed mother, state what amount you have given per month prior to your enlistment, also reason she has no other support than yourself:
All earnings. Husband dead and her only other sons married and supporting their own families. She has no other income sufficient to support her & her two daughters.
(L. C. Boulton, “Particulars of Family”, 7 Jan 1917)
The Boultons were a prominent Upper Canadian family with deep political connections and a long military tradition. During the 1885 Northwest Rebellion, Colonel Charles Arkoll Boulton (1841—1899) raised a unit to help put down the uprising of Louis Riel. In 1889, he was appointed senator for Manitoba. His oldest son, D’Arcy Everard Boulton was born in Orillia, Ontario on 26 April 1876. Lawrence Charles Boulton was born in Lakefield, Ontario on 10 December 1878. The youngest son, Russell Heath Boulton, was born in Russell, Manitoba on 24 February 1884-1918.