Augusta Emelia Enberg

Born 1874      Place Lovisa, Finland    Ethnic origin Finnish    Religion Lutheran

Father -        Mother Enberg, Emelia

Arrived at Australia -

Residence before enlistment Sydney

Occupation nurse

Service

service number    enlisted 4.07.1916 POE Sydney

unit 14 Australian General Hospital   rank nurse

place Egypt 1916-1917, England, 1917

final fate RTA 25.08.1917       discharged 10.11.1917 (as being of enemy nationality)

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Residence after the war 1920 Thursday Island (?)

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

alien registration (NAA) (Enberg, Agusta Emilia)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

One of those who came under suspicion was Augusta Enberg, a professional nurse from Finland, who was 42 years old and living with her sister in Sydney when she enlisted in the AIF — the only female Russian subject to do so. She made two trips as a nurse on troop-ships to the war-theatre — to Egypt in December 1916 – February 1917 and to Britain in May–October 1917. She returned to Australia on the Benalla with, among others, several Russians under her care, including two who were severely wounded: a Finnish former seaman, Anton Anderson, and Thomas Platonoff, the Russian farmer’s son from Cordalba, Queensland. When Augusta Enberg arrived back in Australia, her appointment was terminated on suspicion that she was an enemy national.

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