Bekza Boris Dezantoff

Russian spelling Бекза Борис Дезантов (Жантиев)

Born 2.05.1885  Place Vladikavkaz, Ossetia, the Caucasus   Ethnic origin Ossetian   Religion Russian Orthodox

Father Dezantoff, Gregory   Mother -

Arrived at Australia

            from Russia  on 21.12.1912    per Nikko Maru   disembarked at Melbourne

Residence before enlistment Port Pirie, SA

Occupation labourer at the Broken Hill Assoc. Smelters Pty Ltd

Service

service number 4755   enlisted 21.10.1915   POE Adelaide

unit 10th Battalion, 50th Battalion   rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1918       casualties WIA 1917, 1918 (twice)

final fate RTA 6.11.1918       discharged 2.03.1919

Naturalisation 1940

Residence after the war Port Pirie, SA

Wife Luba (Lucy) Dezantoff, b.1885, Siberia, d. 1955 Port Pirie

Died 20.05.1967 at Port Pirie [information from Roger Freeman and Port Pirie cemetery]

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

army pay file (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

[...] in April [1916] the Mongolia brought ten Russians from South Australia, among them five Ossetians from the Port Pirie smelters who had joined up together in October 1915 — Soltanoff, Gasieff, Mamsuroff, Dezantoff, and Tolparoff.

    [...] Three of the remaining Ossetians from Port Pirie who enlisted together were among the casualties [at Villers-Bretonneux]: Moss Malsag Mamsuroff was killed, Alexei Tolparoff was taken prisoner, and Bekza Boris Dezantoff was wounded.

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