Alexander Popow

Russian spelling Александр Попов

Born 1887     Place Glukhov, Chernigov, now Western Russia     Ethnic origin Russian     Religion Russian Orthodox

Father General Popow     Mother Popow, Maria

Residence before arrival at Australia received Degree of Electrical Engineering at the University of Lioge (Belgium), served for 2 years for the Russian Government

Arrived at Australia

            from New Zealand     on 01.1914     per      disembarked at

Residence before enlistment Melbourne

Occupation electrical engineer

Service

service number 833, 379     enlisted 16.01.1915     POE Melbourne

unit 2nd Field Company Engineers       rank Sapper

place Gallipoli, 1915; Western Front, 1916       casualties WIA 1915, 1916

discharged 4.06.1917 in London, MU

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Residence after the war 1916 London

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

It was a grim return to the Somme [1916]: under the autumn rains much of the battlefield turned into a bog; the trenches filled with water. Among the many casualties here was Alexander Popow, a Russian general’s son, who had studied electrical engineering at the University of Liège, Belgium. Popow survived multiple shell-wounds, only to develop gas gangrene, and spent nearly six months in English hospitals, undergoing three operations, which left him with 63 scars on his left leg alone.

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