Maximilian Kipman

Alias Max       Russian spelling Максимилиан Кипман

Born 25.12.1893     Place Copenhagen, Denmark while his Polish parents were travelling     Ethnic origin Pole   Religion -

Father Kipman, Jacob      Mother Kipman, Felicia

Brother Kipman, Stanley

Residence before arrival at Australia after Poland lived in Switzerland for 5 years and in England for 6 months

Arrived at Australia

            from London     on 9.11.1914      per Borda      disembarked at Sydney

Residence before enlistment Sydney

Occupation 1916 cashier, 1924 piano tuner, 1939 salesman, 1945 liqueur manufacturer (Reve D'or Liqueur)

Service

service number    enlisted 1917   POE Sydney

place Home service (Liverpool camp), clerical staff

discharged 26.07.1917

Naturalisation 1925

Residence after the war Sydney

Wife Henrietta Christina Kipman (née McLean),  married 1922; 1932-1933 wife Florence Kipman (née Hooke); in 1942 married Bessie Pendergast

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

Investigation Branch file (NAA)

Reve D'Or Liqueurs (M Kipman) - application for spirits quota for liqueurs (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

There were a number of [...] cases in which Russians came under notice because of reports made to the authorities by their comrades or by people in the community. In the case of the Kipman brothers, who had spent several years living in Europe, the informant was a lady who resided in the same boarding-house and bombarded military intelligence with her ‘disclosures’ of their pro-German sympathies. A few words from her many communications are sufficient to convey their flavour: ‘The local postman told me … some cards written in German more than a year ago and addressed to me for them, they refused to accept. They could easily have read them before refusing to accept them.’ Sadly, the Kipmans were affected by her various ‘communications’, and never reached the front; formally, though, they were rejected on medical grounds.

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