Julius Ivar Edmund Nyman

Born 10.02.1889     Place Uleaborg (Oulu), Finland     Ethnic origin Finn     Religion Lutheran

Father Nyman, Frans Ivar     Mother Nyman, Natholia (Nathalia)

Arrived at Australia

            from Finland     on 10.06.1899     per Orient     disembarked at Brisbane

Residence before enlistment Brisbane, Yandina

Occupation 1910 carpenter, 1916 postal mechanic

Service

service number 2250A     enlisted 7.02.1916     POE Warwick, Qld

unit 49th Battalion       rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1919      casualties WIA 1917 (twice)

final fate RTA 12.05.1919       discharged 20.08.1919

Naturalisation 1910

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Only a few Finns who had spent longer in Australia had wives here; apart from the small group of families that followed Matti Kurikka’s charismatic leadership to north Queensland, Finnish families did not tend to migrate here. Kurikka wanted to found a Finnish colony in north Queensland at the beginning of the 20th century, and among these families there were at least three future Anzacs who arrived as young boys: Julius Nyman, Hjalmari Hannus and Johannes Kotkamaa.

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