Joe Felipor

Alias Fielipov (signature); Felipoe, Joseph (pension), Felipov (court martial)    Russian spelling Иосиф Филиппов

Born 1888    Place Odessa, Ukraine     Ethnic origin Russian      Religion

Residence before arrival at Australia served in  the Russian forces during Balkan War

Arrived at Australia -

Residence before enlistment Day Dawn, WA

Occupation miner

Service

service number 4326   enlisted 9.03.1916 POE Blackboy Hill, WA

unit 6th Tunnelling Company, 3rd Tunnelling Company   rank Sapper

place Western Front 1916       casualties WIA 1916

final fate RTA 26.09.1917       discharged 5.02.1918

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Materials digitised service records (NAA) (Felipor)

court martial files 1   2  (NAA) (Felipov)

alien registration (NAA) (Felipoe)

records of Assistant Provost Marshal (NAA) (Felipor)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Joe Felipov (his name was mis-spelt as Felipor) came from Odessa and had previously served in the Russian army during the Balkan war; he came to Belgium with a tunnelling company. Although he was a miner when he enlisted, the tattoos on his body — a tree, a flower and a bee, a sailor on a monument, an anchor over a life-buoy, a cross, a windmill, an automatic revolver — told a story of previous adventures. On the fateful day he was in a party of 12, in charge of Sapper W. Monaghan, marching to Reninghelst, near Ypres, when they stopped at a halfway point for a drink in an estaminet. Later, under cross-examination, members of the party testified to drinking there: ‘I had had about 5 glasses of beer. … I was not drunk. Sapper Monaghan had had the same amount of drink but was not drunk.’ Felipov did not drink with the men, as he had no money. Finally, they came out and, Felipov testified: Monaghan ‘said “I am Officer this time, all follow me in single file”. Then Sapper Monaghan suggested that they should all have another drink before moving off, but I refused and said I would go and report myself. I then started to walk away when he called out “Halt! Bloody Russian you should be with us all in here.”’ Monaghan ran after Felipov and hit him, trying to take his rifle off him. Felipov, who said, ‘I was besides myself with pain’, hit Monaghan with a bayonet, as a consequence of which he was tried. Although Monaghan’s mates tried to cover up what happened — ‘Sapper Monaghan did not call accused any names’ — and the court found Felipov guilty and sentenced him to one year’s imprisonment, the sentence was not confirmed.

    [...] in the final days of 1916, on 29 December, Felipov’s left arm was severely wounded, the one with the tattoos of the flower and the bee, and he was evacuated to England [...]

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