August Makewitz

Born 18.01.1886      Place Talsen (?), Riga, Latvia      Ethnic origin Latvian      Religion Lutheran

Father Makewitz, Gvit (Girt)      Mother -

Arrived at Australia

            from Delagoa Bay (South Africa)      on 5.02.1906     per Lochu      disembarked at Wallaroo

Residence before enlistment South Australia, Adelaide, Port Adelaide

Occupation seaman

Service

service number 1043   enlisted 9.03.1915 POE Keswick, SA

unit 27th Battalion, 50th Battalion   rank Private

place Gallipoli, 1915, Western Front, 1916-1917      casualties WIA 1917

final fate RTA 10.09.1917       discharged 6.05.1918 MU (right leg amputated)

Naturalisation 1914

Residence after the war Port Adelaide, SA

Died 16.09.1922

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

On 2 April [1917], at the battle for Noreuil, in the middle of no-man’s-land August Makewitz’s right foot was hit by a shell-fragment. ‘He had to lay out in rain for 24 hours. He crawled back a couple of miles and was then [taken] to ambulance’. His medical card records that his leg was amputated ‘owing to onset of gas gangrene’. He lived long enough to receive his war medals in 1922, dying only a few months afterwards.

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