Ivan Odliff

Alias Jack, John     Russian spelling Иван Одлив (?)

Born 1887     Place Nizhny Novgorod, Volga River area, Russia, or Riga, Latvia     Ethnic origin Russian     Religion Roman Catholic & Russian Orthodox

Father Odliff, I.     Mother Odliff, M.

Residence before arrival at Australia served in the Russian Navy

Arrived at Australia -

Residence before enlistment Albury, NSW

Occupation boiler maker, labourer

Service 1

service number 3177     enlisted 15.02.1915     POE Liverpool, NSW

unit 17th Battalion       rank Private

place Depot

discharged 19.03.1915 unlikely to become an efficient soldier

Service 2

service number 3177     enlisted 20.08.1915     POE Newcastle, NSW

unit 18th Battalion, 3rd Battalion, MG Company Details      rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1918      casualties WIA 1916

discharged 20.05.1919 in England; enlisted in Middlesex Regiment, the North Russian Relief Force

final fate RTA, by 6.04.1920 arrived at Sydney

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Residence after the war Currency Creek, via Windsor, NSW

Died 1926 Gunnedah, NSW

Materials digitised service records 1    2  (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

[...] five Russians enlisted in the Middlesex Regiment, mostly as interpreters, and served with the North Russian Relief Force: Alex Alexandroff, from Vladivostok (a former cook), Robert Meerin and Anthony Minkshlin, from the Baltic region (both former seamen), Ivan Odliff, from Nizhny Novgorod (a former boiler-maker), and Paul Smirnoff, a 19-year-old former miner from Vologda, northern Russia. Richard Gregorenko planned to join them but later changed his mind and returned to Australia. They arrived in Archangel in summer 1919 and fought against the pro-Bolshevik forces in the area until the final evacuation of Allied forces a year later. Minkshlin was awarded a Meritorious Service Medal for this campaign.

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