Yai Limbek

Alias was likely identical with John Lemberg from Kalgoorlie (police report)

Born 1884     Place Dago (Hiiumaa), Estonia   Ethnic origin Estonian     Religion Church of England

Father Limbek, Uri       Mother -

Arrived at Australia -

Residence before enlistment Perth

Occupation labourer

Service

service number 5428   enlisted 1.02.1916 POE Perth

unit 11th Battalion   rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1917      casualties WIA 1917

final fate RTA 10.09.1917       discharged 5.12.1917 MU

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

intelligence file (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

The horror of Bullecourt [1917] kept soldiers in its grips long after these battles. Among the Russians alone there were at least three men affected mentally — one was Yai Limbek, who had been at the Western Front since August 1916. After First Bullecourt he left his unit but was soon apprehended and sent into battle again. He was wounded in the face and in hospital he became deluded: ‘imagined his head was full of shrapnel … and that gases are introduced in his room’, according his medical records.

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