Jacob Leffow

Alias Lefow    Russian spelling Яков Иванович Лефов (?)

Born 1893     Place [Chernigov?], Ukraine    Ethnic origin Russian?     Religion Russian Orthodox

Father Leffow, John       Mother -

Arrived at Australia

Residence before enlistment Sydney

Occupation ship's fireman

Service

service number 5013A   enlisted 13.12.1915   POE Casula, NSW

unit 19th Battalion, 36th Battalion, 34th Battalion   rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1918

final fate KIA 31.08.1918

cemetery details 511 Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, France

Naturalisation enlisted as naturalised British subject

Materials digitised service records (NAA) (Leffow)

court martial records (NAA) (Lefow)

Roll of Honour card (AWM) (Leffow)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

The sudden charge on Mont St Quentin on 31 August [1918] by several battalions of the 2nd Division (by now some battalions had only 300 men fit to fight) took the Germans by surprise, and many fled or were surrounded. But the Australians had many casualties, too. Among the fallen were three former seaman: Jack Aloe, who had failed in his bid to be granted naturalisation on the eve of his enlistment, William Brining, and Jacob Leffow. The last to arrive in Australia, the last to enlist — there is probably some reasonable explanation that accounts for the high rate of casualties among seamen in these last weeks of the war. And yet the fate of these vagabonds dying on the crippled earth seems especially tragic.

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