Andrew Jabinsky

Alias Jabensky, Jabinski     Russian spelling Андрей Иванович Жабинский

Born 29.06.1887      Place Borisoff, Minsk, Belarus     Ethnic origin Byelorussian    Religion Russian Orthodox

Father Jabinsky, John      Mother -

Wife Rima Jabensky and daughter stayed in Russia

Residence before arrival at Australia served in the Siberian Engineers for 3 years

Arrived at Australia

            from Far East, Moji       on 10.07.1913       per St Albans       disembarked at Brisbane

Residence before enlistment Queensland

Occupation 1915 engineer, fitter; 1939 engine fitter

Service

service number 95   enlisted 1.04.1915 POE Rockhampton, Qld

unit 26th Battalion, 7th Brigade MG Company   rank Private

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

final fate RTA early 1919       discharged 10.04.1917 MU in London

Naturalisation 1940

Residence after the war 1919 Rockhampton, Mt Morgan, 1921 Babinda, Mt Morgan, 1928 Newcastle

Family Alice Jabinski (née Chapman), married 1929, daughter Claudia Margaret, b. 1929

Died 16.01.1951

Materials naturalisation (NAA) (Jabinski)

digitised service records (NAA)

application for assistance (NAA)

alien registration (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

 Often it was marriage that put an end to their nomadic life-styles [after the war]. Andrew Jabinsky, a former engineer, had been discharged in London with ‘abdominal malignant disease’ and returned to Australia in 1919 after a brief spell as a munitions worker there; the next two years he spent moving around between Rockhampton, Mount Morgan and Babinda, probably cane-cutting. In 1928 he moved from Queensland to Newcastle, New South Wales, where he married an Australian woman, had a child and started working at BHP as an engine-fitter. He applied for naturalisation in 1939 but by then, as his unsteady handwriting suggests, he was very sick. Thanks to his family’s care, however, he had several more years of peaceful life, and died in 1951.

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