Yur Kivovitch

Alias Kivovitch Judah Myer (naturalisation); Carmichael, Victor Michael (changed name by deed of poll)     Russian spelling Кивович

Born 4.10.1890      Place Kherson, Ukraine      Ethnic origin Jewish      Religion Jewish

Father Kivovitch, Yur (Jacob)      Mother Kivovitch, Yetta (Annette)

Siblings: Sarah, Benjamin, Ewer (?), Ethel, Henry (Hyam?), Isaac, Jean, Fanny, Rebecca

Residence before arrival at Australia went to India from South China, naturalised in Hong Kong

Arrived at Australia

            from Hong Kong     on 8.12.1913    per Nikko Maru     disembarked at Townsville

Residence before enlistment Townsville, Sydney

Occupation 1913 subcollector of customs, Townsville, 1915 tradesman, refreshment room keeper, 1918 commercial traveller

Service

service number 2690   enlisted 31.08.1915   POE Holdsworthy, NSW

unit 18th Battalion, Camel transport Corps, Australian H.Q., Egypt   rank Acting/C.Q.M.S., Private, Temporary Corporal

place Egypt, Palestine, 1916-1917

final fate RTA 22.01.1917       discharged 21.03.1917 MU

Naturalisation 1919

Residence after the war South Australia, New Zealand, Canada, 1951 Australia

Family married in Melbourne in 1928

Died 1956 or 1957

Materials naturalisation (NAA) (Kivovitch)

digitised service records (NAA) (Kivovich)

Investigation Branch file (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Some [Jewish Anzacs] were highly educated — like Yur Kivovitch, brought up in Odessa, who claimed (when enlisting in the AIF) to have ‘diplomas as an interpreter in Russian, Arabic, Turkish, German, etc., also a working knowledge of French, Italian and Spanish’, which must have made him useful when attached to the military censor’s office in Egypt.

    [...]  having been invalided out of the army and seeking to be naturalised, Yur Kivovitch wrote in 1918: ‘my desire for naturalisation is so that I would be able to execute duties such as a citizen should — It struck me rather hard when I found that I am not able to vote after fighting for King and Country.’

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