Emil Everd Hofdahl

Alias Hofdohl, Emil Evered (alien reg.)

Born 5.06.1889     Place Helsingfors (Helsinki), Finland     Ethnic origin Finn    Religion Church of England

Father -        Mother Hofdahl, Mina

Residence before arrival at Australia 6 years of experience on the sea

Arrived at Australia

            from      on 7.10.1916    per Cumberland     disembarked at deserted the ship

Residence before enlistment Melbourne

Occupation engineer & fitter

Service

service number    enlisted 18.08.1917   POE Melbourne

unit Australian General Hospital   rank orderly

place Depot     discharged 04.1918

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

Intelligence section file (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

 In April 1918 staff at the Australian General Hospital in Melbourne became suspicious of Emil Hofdahl, a Finnish seaman and engineer who was serving as a hospital orderly there: ‘The impression there is that he is a German … When Petrograd fell he expressed himself as being glad’ — even though he had a Swedish surname and spoke no German, that was enough to discharge him.

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