Hjalmari Hannus

Born 1898   Place Helsingfors (Helsinki), Finland     Ethnic origin Finn    Religion Methodist

Father Hannus, Matti, arrived in Australia with family in 1900, nat. 1904     Mother Anderson, Eva

Arrived at Australia

            from Finland on 22.01.1900     per Orizaba   disembarked at Brisbane

Residence before enlistment Chillagoe, Nambour, Brisbane

Occupation carpenter

Service

service number 2074   enlisted 9.05.1916 POE Brisbane

unit 41st Battalion, 3rd Pioneer Battalion   rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1918      casualties WIA 1917

final fate RTA 27.05.1919       discharged 12.09.1919

Naturalisation 1904 (with father)

Materials digitised father's naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Only a few Finns who had spent longer in Australia had wives here; apart from the small group of families that followed Matti Kurikka’s charismatic leadership to north Queensland, Finnish families did not tend to migrate here. Kurikka wanted to found a Finnish colony in north Queensland at the beginning of the 20th century, and among these families there were at least three future Anzacs who arrived as young boys: Julius Nyman, Hjalmari Hannus and Johannes Kotkamaa.

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