Abraham Levene

Alias Abraham Dave Levene; served as David Conroy

Born 1892     Place Russia (information from parents); Glasgow, Scotland (enlistment)

Ethnic origin Jewish       Religion Jewish

Father Levene, Samuel    Mother Levene, Janey

Residence before arrival at Australia studied at Queen's Walk School, Nottingham

Arrived at Australia ca 1910

Residence before enlistment NSW

Occupation bush worker and general labourer

Service

service number 708   enlisted 27.08.1914   POE Kensington, NSW

unit 4th Battalion   rank Private

place Gallipoli, 1915      casualties WIA 1915

final fate KIA 23.07.1915

cemetery details 31 Shrapnel Valley Cemetery Anzac, Gallipoli;

 Epitaph; Photo of the grave

Naturalisation enlisted as natural born British subject

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

Roll of Honour card (AWM)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

The very first contingent [...] — this First Fleet of the new Australian nationhood — left Australian waters in early November 1914 with at least 12 Russians: the Finns Baer and Hiltunen, the ethnic Russians Arn, Kamishansky, Sast and Sindeeff, the Polish-born Markowicz and Watson, the Jews Zander and Levene, and the Russian-born Englishmen Ball and Dyson.

    [...] tragic was the fate of Abraham Levene, the young Jewish man from Russia who had grown up in England: wounded soon after the landing [at Gallipoli], he recovered and rejoined his unit only to be killed a few weeks later.

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