Thomas Stephen Platonaff

Alias Thomas Stephanus Platonoff     Russian spelling Фома Степанович Платонов

Born 19.09.1892     Place Ukrainka (?), Kherson, Ukraine     Ethnic origin Russian     Religion Roman Catholic (?)

Father Platonoff, Stephan     Mother Platonoff, Tatiana

Arrived at Australia

            from Russia     on 12.11.1911     per Kumano Maru     disembarked at Brisbane

Residence before enlistment settled with parents and brother George Platonoff at Booyal, Cordalba, worked on Cordalba-Dallarnil railway construction, purchased a farm at Booyal, Qld

Occupation 1913 farmer, 1916 farm labourer

Service

service number 1950     enlisted 17.01.1916     POE Brisbane

unit 52nd Battalion       rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1917      casualties WIA 1917

final fate RTA 25.08.1917       discharged 29.11.1917

Naturalisation 1914

Residence after the war 1919, 1921 Booyal, Qld; 1940 Mackay, Qld

Family son (?) Platonoff, Thomas, b. Childers 1927

Materials naturalisation (NAA) (Thomas Stephanus Plantonoff)

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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