Akim Petroff

Alias Pitroff; Akem, Akin, Akon     Russian spelling Аким Миронович Петров

Born 25.09.1889     Place Novozybkov, Chernigov, now Western Russia     Ethnic origin Russian     Religion Church of England

Father Petroff, Meron     Mother -

Arrived at Australia

            from Russia     on 21.07.1912     per Kumano Maru     disembarked at Brisbane

Residence before enlistment Brisbane, Port Pirie, North Qld, Mount Morgan, Qld

Occupation 1915 miner, 1920, 1923 bootmaker

Service

service number 2817A     enlisted 14.08.1915     POE Rockhampton, Qld

unit 25th Battalion, 9th Battalion       rank Private

place Western Front 1916      casualties WIA 1916

final fate RTA 12.11.1916       discharged 31.01.1917 (MU, right leg amputated)

WWI contacts: enlisted together Malisheff, Akim Petroff, Sholmatoff, Tarasenkoff, Tugarin, and Yannin

Naturalisation 1923

Residence after the war Mt Morgan, Brisbane

Family wife Titania (Tatiana) Petroff,  son Howrilah (Gavrila) Petroff, b. 1912 (remained in Russia); wife Gertrude Anna Petroff (née Levien), married 1919

Died before 1949

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

alien registration (NAA)

wife's alien registration (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

The front around Armentières was described as a ‘nursery sector’ since it was supposedly quiet, but many Australians experienced their baptism by fire almost as soon as they arrived. On 20 April [1916 ...] the farmhouse and outbuildings at Rouge de Bout, where 9th Battalion’s C Company was billeted, received a direct hit under heavy shelling, which killed and wounded many men. C Company included many Russians: Akim Petroff, who was severely wounded in the knee and hands, was evacuated to England and had his right leg amputated; Nicholas Sholmatoff and Alexander Sank were also severely wounded. All three were repatriated to Australia. Lavrrenty Rogojnekoff was the only one of this group to escape from this shelling with only minor injuries, but a few weeks later at Sailly he sustained more serious wounds. These were the first Russian Anzac casualties on the Western Front.

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