Lion Harlap

Alias Leon

Born 21.07.1893     Place Odessa, Ukraine or Rehovot, Palestine    Ethnic origin Jewish   Religion Jewish

Father Harlap, Ephraim      Mother -

Residence before arrival at Australia was brought to Palestine when he was 18 months old, later stated that he was born in Palestine

Arrived at Australia

            from Palestine    on 18.12.1910      per French mail boat   disembarked at Fremantle, WA

Residence before enlistment Big Brook, Perth

Occupation 1914 locksmith, 1915 engine fitter; 1924 had Harlap Cycle Shop, Jaffa

Service

service number 1098   enlisted 5.03.1915 POE Perth

unit 10th Light Horse Regiment, Anzac Provost Corps, depot stores   rank Trooper, Corporal

place Egypt, Palestine, 1915-1919

discharged 29.03.1919 in Egypt

Naturalisation 1915, in 1934 naturalisation revoked

Residence after the war Palestine

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

At the beginning of October 1918 the Australians had reached Damascus and just over a month later the war was over. For Lion Harlap, and for several other Jews who had originally come to Australia via Palestine, this was an especially blissful time. Harlap’s family lived at the colony Rehovot (where Margolin spent his youth, guarding it from the Arabs). ‘Whilst there with the Forces’, Harlap wrote, ‘I was gratified to find my parents and sisters still alive though my father, who has suffered so much at the hands of our enemies, has aged considerably.’ It was decided at this ‘joyful’ family reunion that when he received his discharge he should return directly to Palestine, to his family — and at the end of the war, he did.

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