John Mineeff

Alias Mineef, Jack   Russian spelling Иван Семенович Минеев

Born 21.09.1887      Place Perm, the Urals, Russia      Ethnic origin Russian      Religion Church of England

Father Mineef, Semen       Mother Mineef, Pelagia

Arrived at Australia

            from Russia  on 24.07.1910      per Yawata Maru      disembarked at Brisbane

Residence before enlistment Esk to Blackbutt Railway, Brisbane, Ipswich Railway works

Occupation iron moulder

Service

service number 15736   enlisted 16.08.1915   POE Brisbane

unit 3rd FAB, 1st DAC   rank Gunner, Driver

place Western Front, 1916-1918

final fate RTA 12.05.1918       discharged 7.01.1919

Naturalisation 1913

Residence after the war Sydney

Family wife Annie Emily Mineeff (née Rowbotham), married 1919, children Jack (?), Alexis Charles (1921-1944, WWII), Judith Marie Catherine, Nicholas

Died 11.11.1931, Randwick, NSW

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

John Mineeff, born in the Urals, an iron-moulder at enlistment, served as a gunner and driver in artillery with the 1st AIF and was invalided back to Australia suffering from shell-shock. He later married but did not live long. When the new war broke out, his two sons and daughter all joined up. His second son, Lex (Alexis Charles), served in the RAAF in England as a wireless operator on Lancasters; in June 1944 his plane failed to return from a bombing mission over northern France. His plane was subsequently found just north of Amiens, not many miles from where, on the other side of Amiens, his father had endured the horror of the Somme in the autumn of 1916.

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