Nathan Krausman

Alias Kraussman, Krausmann      Russian spelling Натан Яковлевич Краусман

Born 16.05.1872       Place Galatz, Bessarabia (now Moldova)     Ethnic origin Jewish    Religion Jewish

Father Krausman, Jacob     Mother Nissava (?)

Arrived at Australia

            from Antwerp    on 31.12.1890      per Barmen     disembarked at Melbourne

Residence before enlistment Victoria, Tasmania, Qld, Sydney

Occupation axeman, bush worker, prospector

Wife Ellen Krausman (married before 1916); daughter Mabel (Myrle Ivy Harris)

Service

service number 463   enlisted 10.01.1916   POE Liverpool, NSW

unit 3rd Pioneer Battalion   rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1917

final fate RTA 28.08.1917       discharged 25.01.1918 MU

Naturalisation applied 1925

Residence after the war Sydney

Died 1928, at Nyngan, NSW

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

application for assistance (NAA)

Investigation Branch file (NAA)

Krausman, Ethel Jane (security service dossier) (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Some who came to Australia soon mastered English and took up Australian ways — even, like Nathan Krausman, living and working in the bush and leading lives far removed from the traditional picture of city-dwelling Jews engaged in small business. Krausman came to Australia in 1890 at 18 years of age, from Bessarabia, and spent his working life in the bush as an axeman, a bush-worker and prospector, apart from his brief stint with the Pioneers on the Western Front.

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    But there were those like Nathan Krausman who still could not abandon their wanderings [after the war] despite being married. Krausman had a wife and daughter in Sydney but spent most of his time in the bush. In the words of his police report: ‘He is a prospector and bushworker, his work took him over the whole of Victoria, NSW, Queensland and Tasmania, and [he] has never lived in any fixed place of abode for any length of time’. He was unable to take the oath of allegiance for his naturalisation in 1925, explaining that ‘I am in the back country trapping’. Three years later, at Nyngan, northwest New South Wales, in 1928, he was dead.

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