Boleslav Boryss

Russian spelling Болеслав Борис

Born 4.04.1888    Place Warsaw, Poland    Ethnic origin Pole    Religion Roman Catholic

Father -       Mother Boryss, Maria

Residence before arrival at Australia served in the Russian army

Arrived at Australia

Residence before enlistment Mornington Mills, WA

Occupation 1915 fitter, mill-hand, 1936 second-hand dealer

Service

service number 15   enlisted 26.03.1915   POE Blackboy Hill, WA

unit 28th Battalion   rank Private

place Gallipoli, 1915; Western Front, 1916       casualties WIA 1916

final fate RTA 14.01.1917       discharged 16.07.1917 MU

Naturalisation 1915

Residence after the war 1921 Melbourne, 1928 Yarraville, Vic., 1932, 1939 Sydney

Wife Barbara Boryss (née Naritz), born in Smolensk, married 1932

Died 17.11.1972

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

application for admission relatives (NAA)

security service file (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Anyone who sounded foreign enough was in danger of being targeted in these times [WWII], including Russians. What happened to Boleslav Boryss, who had served his country and been severely wounded at Pozières, was not an isolated instance. Boryss had a second-hand shop along Oxford Street, Paddington, in Sydney. One of his neighbours alerted police that she had heard a Morse code apparatus going at his premises and also that, when looking in his shop window, she had noticed a ‘press set up with material ready for printing’. The policeman sent to investigate reported that the press ‘appears to be an old chest of drawers’ and commented that the informer ‘has allowed her imagination to run away with her’.

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