David Minor

Born 1894       Place Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania     Ethnic origin Jewish     Religion Jewish

Arrived at Australia -

Residence before enlistment

Occupation seaman

Service

service number 6051   enlisted 4.03.1916 POE Sydney

unit 1st Battalion   rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1918       casualties WIA 1917

final fate KIA 4.05.1918

cemetery details 324 Meteren Military Cemetery, France

Naturalisation probably was naturalised, but could not produce papers

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

Application to enlist in the AIF (NAA)

Roll of Honour card (AWM)

Studio portrait of 6051 Private David Minor. P04153.001 (AWM)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Some occupations and career paths not traditionally associated with Russian Jewry show up among the more-assimilated Jews — seafaring, for instance [...]. Seamen can be identified from their particularly unusual tattoos, carefully recorded by enlistment clerks, such as David Minor’s ‘Chinaman’s head pierced by sword’.

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