Feodot Peachenoff

Russian spelling Федот Печенов (Пиченов)

Born 7.06.1883     Place Bratskoe, Kiev, Ukraine     Ethnic origin Russian     Religion Russian Orthodox

Residence before arrival at Australia served at the Russian Army for 4 years

Arrived at Australia

            from Russia     on 16.10.1911     per Nikko Maru     disembarked at Brisbane

Residence before enlistment Booyal, Cordalba, Qld

Occupation farmer; 1940 worked on the mill near Cordalba

Family wife Mary Peachenoff, and daughter (arrived at Australia in 1913); son Victor b. 1920 (?); wife Akelina (née Neeshita, Maximenko) since 1926, daughter Helen b. 1928, son Valentine Maximenko b. 1929

Service

service number 13638     enlisted 8.12.1915     POE Brisbane

unit 5th Field Ambulance       rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1919

final fate RTA 8.04.1919       discharged 11.07.1919

Naturalisation 1914

Residence after the war Booyal, Cordalba, Qld; 1962 Sydney

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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