Thomas Habaeff

Alias Tembolat Habaeff (shipping records)            Russian spelling Темболат Хабаев

Born 1891   Place Khumalag, Ossetia, the Caucasus     Ethnic origin Ossetian    Religion Russian Orthodox

Father Habaeff, Demetre      Mother Habaeff, Gege

Arrived at Australia

            from Port Arthur     on 28.05.1913    per Eastern     disembarked at Melbourne

Residence before enlistment Port Pirie, Broken Hill, Newcastle, Brisbane

Occupation labourer, 1930 cane cutter

Service

service number 85   enlisted 1.04.1915 POE Rockhampton

unit 26th Battalion, 7th LTM Battery, 2nd Div. LTM Battery   rank Private

place Gallipoli, 1915; Western Front, 1916-1917       casualties WIA 1917

final fate RTA 27.08.1917       discharged 27.11.1917

Naturalisation 1922

Residence after the war Rockhampton, 1919 Winton, Innisfail, Townsville, Mourilyan, 1920 Innisfail, 1921 Townsville, Mourilyan, 1930 Tully, Qld, returned to Russia

Died 1939 in Russia

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

alien registration (NAA)

applications for admission relatives and friends 1    2    3 (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Thomas Habaeff, an Ossetian who fought through Gallipoli and the Western Front until severely wounded at Bullecourt, worked as a labourer and cane-cutter from 1918 to 1921, meandering up and down central and north Queensland — Rockhampton, Aramac, Winton, Townsville, Cairns, Townsville, Halifax, Townsville, Innisfail, Townsville, Mourilyan. He later returned to Russia [...]

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