Michael Klatchko
Russian spelling Михаил Эммануилович Клачко
Born 3.05.1883 Place St Petersburg, North-Western Russia Ethnic origin Russian Religion
Residence before arrival at Australia 17.06.1914 left England for Russia via Suez, India & Japan on Lutzow, German POW at Red Sea, 13.08.1914 Lutzow was captured by British, 14.08.1914 arrived in Egypt, 9.09.1914 attached to British Army for duty with the Medical Units, later attached to AIF
Arrived at Australia
from Egypt on 16.09.1916 per Borda disembarked at Melbourne
Residence before enlistment
Occupation doctor, specialist in plastic surgery of jaws and face, dental surgeon
Service
service number enlisted 17.07.1915 (attached to Australian Forces) POE Egypt
unit 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital, 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital
rank Captain place Egypt, 1915-1916 discharged 02.1917 left service
Naturalisation served as Russian subject
Residence after the war 16.12.1917 left Australia for Vladivostok, after 1921 lived with his family in Shanghai, visited Australia on many occasions
Family wife Phyllis Olga Klatchko (née Duckett), married 1917 in Australia, daughter of Arthur H. Duckett, (1894-1936); daughter Masha Klatchko, b. in Melbourne in 1920
Died 06.1968
Materials Dr M Klatchko - Application for certificate of naturalization (NAA)
KLATCHKO I M (Dr) - Russian Imperial Reserve (digitised file) (NAA)
Assistance given to Captain KLATCHKO during visit to Western Australia (NAA)
Dr Klatchko [travel to Japan as Official Bearer to Russian Legation] (digitised file) (NAA)
Klatchko, Michail Emanuilovitch - Re-admission (digitised file) (NAA)
KLATCHKE Olga Artusovna (alien registration) (NAA)
Klatchko, Olga Arturovna (alien registration) (NAA)
Madame Klatchko (Australian - daughter A Duckett, Ed Duckett & Sons) Russian subject by marriage - Authority granted for admission to Australia with Russian nurse (NAA)
Agrenava Slaviansky Choir and Dr Klatchro - Report on (NAA)
Cost of cable to British Consul-General, Shanghai - Case of Dr Klatcho (NAA)
Dr Klatchko and Wang King Yaig - ex "Taiping" (Sydney) August 1935 (NAA)
Chee Ya Ti (Chinese Amah to Mrs Klatchko) - Departure per "Changte" March 1935 (NAA)
Mrs Phyllis Olga Klatcho (NAA)
Mrs Phyllis Olga Klatcho (NAA)
KLATCHKO Michael born 1881; nationality Stateless travelled per TAIPING arriving in Melbourne on 25 July 1939 (NAA)
KLATCHKO Michael - Nationality: Stateless - Arrived Sydney per Aorangi 29 October 1951 Departed Commonwealth on 09 February 1952 (NAA)
ENGMANN Masha - Nationality: American - Arrived Sydney per Aorangi 29 October 1951 Departed Commonwealth on 09 February 1952 Also known as KLATCHKO (NAA)
From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:
A most unusual story was that of Michael Klatchko, a Russian doctor. On the eve of the war he left England aboard the German ship Lutzow, bound for the Russian Far East. At the outbreak of war the ship was in the Red Sea and the German crew immediately interned him on board. The British soon captured the ship, however, and Klatchko was landed in Egypt, where at first he was attached to the British army for duty with the medical units. In July 1915 he was transferred to the AIF and worked in No. 1 Australian General Hospital at Heliopolis and in auxiliary hospitals. He turned out to be a very skilled plastic surgeon, especially with the face and jaws. Many Anzacs evacuated from Gallipoli with severe head injuries experienced the benefits of his skill and his work was appreciated at the highest level. Lieutenant-Colonel Ramsay Smith, No. 1 Australian General Hospital’s commanding officer, confirmed that ‘His splendid surgical knowledge, his manual dexterity, and his mechanical genius, made his services invaluable to the wounded’. Major T.F. Brown, No. 1 Auxiliary Hospital’s commanding officer, added: ‘your keen desire to assist us in every way you could, reflects evidence of the good will of the Russian people towards us. We Australians are only a small portion of the British Empire, but I assure you we appreciate it very much.’ Even the minister for Defence sent Klatchko official thanks for his services. In September 1916 he accompanied wounded soldiers being repatriated on the Borda and, once in Australia, was employed recruiting Russians across the country. His career ended quite unexpectedly and suddenly: in 1917 he ran off to Vladivostok with a girl from an upper-class Melbourne family.
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