Evan Kozakoff

Alias Evin (files and discharge), Eban (embarkation roll)     Russian spelling Иван Козаков

Born 1884      Place Moscow, Russia    Ethnic origin Russian     Religion Russian Orthodox

Father -       Mother Mrs U. Kozakoff

Residence before arrival at Australia served 4 y in the Russian Army

Arrived at Australia -

Residence before enlistment

Occupation engine driver

Service

service number 5035   enlisted 26.04.1915   POE Liverpool, NSW

unit 1st Australian Hospital Ship 'Karoola', 1st ACC Station, 4th Field Ambulance   rank nurse

place Gallipoli, 1915; Western Front, 1916

discharged 31.08.1916 in London, services no longer required owing to an insufficient knowledge of the English language preventing him from carrying out orders

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Russians who joined the army together, or who met up at training camp, would often embark together. [...] The Karoola, which left Brisbane on 12 June 1915, carried eight Russians mostly from northern Queensland: Glowacki, Roomianzoff, Sekachoff, Karelin (6/9th Battalion), and Lopaten, Grehoff, Smagin and Volkoff (6/15th Battalion). In Sydney they were joined by three of their countrymen — Kozakoff, Harbert and Kozakovshonok.

    [...] There were even a few cases of Russians being discharged because of insufficient English: as with Jack Kanaef and Evan Kozakoff, who had both been in the field ambulance. Acting with the characteristic presumptuousness of the time towards someone different, Kozakoff’s commander anglicised his name into Koseycroft!

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