John Kostin

Russian spelling Иван Георгиевич Костин

Born 20.02.1884     Place Kyshtym, Cheliabinsk, the Urals, Russia  Ethnic origin Russian    Religion Russian Orthodox

Father Kostin, George      Mother Kostin, Evdokia

Residence before arrival at Australia took part in Russo-Japanese war

Arrived at Australia

            from Russia  on 16.11.1910      per Nikko Maru     disembarked at Sydney

Residence before enlistment Sydney, Mossman, Qld

Occupation 1915 fitter, 1919 engineer, 1921 soldier settler; 1925 orchardist, 1928 engineer

Service

service number 13983   enlisted 11.12.1915   POE Townsville, Qld

unit 12th Field Company Engineers, 5th Field Company Engineers   rank Sapper

place Western Front, 1917-1918      casualties WIA 1917, 1918

final fate RTA 23.07.1919       discharged 13.11.1919

Naturalisation 1928

Residence after the war Qld, 1928 Stanthorpe

Family wife Dora (Doris) Louisa Kostin (née Trim), married 1916 in England; children: Nina b. 1919; Victor, b. 1921; Eugene John, b. 1925; Alexander b. 1926/1927, changed name to Mervyn Bowman

Died 2.08.1937, Brisbane

Materials naturalisation (NAA) (Kastin)

digitised service records (NAA) (Kostin)

Kostitch [Kostin], John - Naturalization certificate granted 15 October 1928 (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

John Kostin, an engineer, wounded and gassed at the Western Front, brought his wife out from England. They [...] settled near Stanthorpe, raising their four children on the farm, where his children remember their dad ‘working all the time and then he got sick’. Kostin died (in 1937) ‘of mustard gas’, his granddaughter says, ‘dad said it was very sad to see his father go through the pain …’.

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