Charles Eloranta

Born 1892      Place Rauma, Finland    Ethnic origin Finn    Religion Lutheran

Father -      Mother Wallenius, Soffie

Arrived at Australia

            from London    on 6.05.1913    per Shropshire    disembarked at Brisbane

Residence before enlistment Kalgoorlie, WA

Occupation sailman, sailor

Service

service number 219   enlisted 3.01.1916 POE Blackboy Hill, WA

unit "B" Flight 1st Squadron Australian Flying Corps   rank Air Mechanic 1st class

place Egypt, Palestine, 1916-1919

discharged 28.05.1919 in London

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Residence after the war 1920 Raumo, Finland, 1929 Sydney, 1934 Mount Isa, Qld

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

The Australian Flying Corps was an élite unit and a small group of Russians was regarded as being sufficiently trustworthy to serve in it. They included three former seamen — Eloranta, Juckham and Tomrop — who served in the 1st Flying Squadron in Egypt. Edward Sevald, from Riga, who had studied at aviation school in Russia, had a successful career with the 3rd Flying Squadron in France as a sergeant mechanic. Frederick Dambelis, also from Riga, a former rigger who ‘understood motor car driving’, became an air-mechanic (2nd class).

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