Jacob Evanoff

Alias Jacob Evonoff (service records)      Russian spelling Иван Иванович Иванов

Born 25.01.1893     Place Novo Dilizhan, Elizavetpol, the Caucasus    Ethnic origin Russian    Religion Roman Catholic (?)

Father Evanoff, John       Mother Evanova, Euphemia

Arrived at Australia

            from America     on 28.04.1917   per Winslow     disembarked at Sydney

Residence before enlistment Sydney

Occupation seaman, labourer

Service

service number 4678   enlisted 2.07.1917 POE Sydney

unit 1st Pioneer Battalion, 53rd Battalion   rank Private

place Western Front, 1918       casualties WIA 1918 (twice)

final fate RTA 4.01.1919       discharged 5.06.1919 MU

Naturalisation 1939

Residence after the war Sydney

Family wife Catharine Mary Evanoff (née Lindbeck) married 1919; children: twins Joan Euphemia & Betty Alice b 7.01.1921, Lois b.12.06.1922, North Sydney

Materials naturalisation (NAA) (John Evanoff)

alien registration (?) (NAA) (Evanoff)

digitised service records  (NAA) (Jacob Evonoff)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Sometimes it is so hard to decipher the names of these remote villages from the versions recorded in Australian documents — such as ‘Novo Delgedghn’, which was Jacob Evonoff’s home, according to his service records. And for a while I despaired over being able to discover where this might be. It eventually turned out to be Novyi Dilizhan, a village in Elizavetpol, the trans-Caucasian province near Lake Sevan (now on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border), an area settled from the 19th century by Russians persecuted for their religious beliefs. This soldier’s correct name, incidentally, was John Ivanoff; the enlisting clerk was obviously finding these strange Russian words hard to understand.

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