Edward Lakovsky

Alias Lake      Russian spelling Эдуард Лаковский

Born 24.05.1893      Place Uzovo (?), Nikolaev, Kherson, Ukraine     Ethnic origin Jewish     Religion Salvation Army

Father Lakovsky (Lachovsky), Tom      Mother Lakovsky, Pasha

Brother David Lakovsky; sister Zillah Lakovsky, wife of Jack Kanaef

Arrived at Australia

            from Odessa on 28.07.1903    per Bremen      disembarked at Fremantle, WA

Residence before enlistment Perth, Kalgoorlie, Broken Hill

Occupation 1915 labourer; after the war was employed by Victorian Railways

Service

service number 1974   enlisted 14.01.1915   POE Oaklands, SA

unit 10th Battalion   rank Private

place Egypt, 1915

final fate RTA 31.08.1915       discharged 12.06.1916 MU

Naturalisation 1915

Residence after the war Melbourne

Family Wife Hilda Isabel Lakovsky; children: Lenard, Raymond, David, Isabel, Leah, Bonny, Gertrude

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised father's naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)\

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

The Lakovsky, Lebovich and Rappeport families from southern Russia were among those that did continue with their small businesses in Australia. They came to Western Australia at the end of the 19th century and their sons would grow up just like other ordinary Australian city boys — with the same pursuits and interests, and undergoing the same military training compulsory for Australian boys at the time. The difference for these Jewish boys was that, in Australia, they had the benefits of a better start in life, and a better general education, than would have been their lot in Russia. The question of their identity was probably of little concern for most of this younger generation: for them, Russianness and Jewishness were already giving way to a sense of being Australian — or being ‘British’.

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