George Kamishansky

Alias Kaminshansky (NSW death records)   Russian spelling Георгий Петрович Камышанский

Born 21.01.1890   Place Kerch, Ukraine     Ethnic origin Russian   Religion Russian Orthodox

Father Kamishansky, Petr (Петр Константинович Камышанский)     Mother Kamishansky, Katherine

Arrived at Australia

            from Russia  on 10.10.1913     per Essen    disembarked at Melbourne

Residence before enlistment Wanalta district, Vic, on ships at the Interstate coastal service

Occupation seaman AB, after the war - electrician, telephone mechanic, officer at the Customs Dept, Sydney

Service

service number 271   enlisted 28.08.1914   POE Sydney

unit 1st FAB; 1st Anzac Headquarters, attached to the 2nd Army Intelligence Staff   rank Gunner

place Gallipoli, 1915, Western Front, 1916, England, 1917-1918

final fate RTA 10.03.1918       discharged 20.07.1918 MU

Naturalisation 1918

Residence after the war Sydney

Wife Jean (Janet) Elizabeth Kamishansky (née Smith), married 1921

Died 19.06.1934

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

biographical file (AWM)

application for admission relatives (NAA)

Investigation Branch file (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

It was common for seamen to have been at sea from an early age but, as previously noted, many of them had unexpected family backgrounds — like George Kamishansky from Kerch, whose work in Australia as an ordinary seaman on coastal ships belied his original background. His father, Petr Konstantinovich Kamishansky, was a St Petersburg court prosecutor who had committed some kind of legal infraction and been sent into internal exile; but, because of his high social rank, he served out his exile as a provincial governor. George knew French, German and English and was obviously well-educated; later, when serving in the AIF in military intelligence, he was able to put his linguistic skills to good use.

    [...] The very first contingent [...] — this First Fleet of the new Australian nationhood — left Australian waters in early November 1914 with at least 12 Russians: the Finns Baer and Hiltunen, the ethnic Russians Arn, Kamishansky, Sast and Sindeeff, the Polish-born Markowicz and Watson, the Jews Zander and Levene, and the Russian-born Englishmen Ball and Dyson.

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