Matfeus Oleinikoff
Russian spelling Матвей Олейников
Born 16.11.1879 Place Moscow, Russia or Poltava, Ukraine Ethnic origin Russian Religion Methodist
Residence before arrival at Australia served 1 year in the Russian army (Red Cross ambulance)
Family wife Daria (Dorrie) Oleinikoff; children: Paul (Pavel), b.1905; Vera, b.1907; Ida, b. 1909; Peter, b. 1910, Lucy, b. 1912; George; Harry, b 1916
Arrived at Australia
from Moscow on 4.09.1912 per Eastern disembarked at Brisbane
Residence before enlistment Cordalba, Qld
Occupation labourer
service number 5650 enlisted 10.05.1916 POE Brisbane
unit 26th Battalion rank Private
place England 1916-1917
final fate RTA 21.07.1917 discharged 27.10.1917 MU
Naturalisation 1915
Residence after the war Brisbane
Materials digitised naturalisation (NAA)
digitised service records (NAA)
From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:
About 1912 some ethnic Russian families took up farming land in the sugar-cane area around Cordalba, Queensland. The heads of three of these families were friends and had previously served in the Russian army. Two of them subsequently enlisted in the AIF: 36-year-old Matfeus Oleinikoff (who had eight children), and 33-year-old Feodot Peachenoff (who had one daughter). The third one, Stephen Platonoff, was too old to fight but his two sons Thomas and George enlisted instead.
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