Andrew Putre

Born 7.10.1885     Place Libava (Liepaja), Latvia     Ethnic origin Latvian     Religion Lutheran

Brother Putre, John (Jack)

Residence before arrival at Australia cleared out of the Russian SS Livonia in Philadelphia, USA and came to Australia via Britain as an AB seaman

Arrived at Australia

            from Liverpool     on 2.03.1911     per Invercoe     disembarked at Port Adelaide, SA

Residence before enlistment Port Adelaide, SA

Occupation 1915 AB seamen, labourer; 1939 panel worker

Service

service number 3869     enlisted 6.08.1915     POE Adelaide

unit 10th Battalion, 1st Pioneer Battalion       rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1918       casualties WIA 1916, 1918

final fate RTA 18.12.1918       discharged 1.04.1919

Naturalisation 1915

Residence after the war Adelaide, South Australia

Family wife Nora Gertruda Putre, son Robert Andrew, b. 1929

WWII served 1939, 4 GB

Materials naturalisation (NAA) (Putke)

digitised WWI service records (NAA)

WWII service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

The assault on the Hindenburg Outpost-Line of 18 September [1918] was an especially successful one for the Australian troops of the 1st and 4th Divisions, who captured 4300 prisoners. [...] Here, too, John Putre, who had won his Military Medal at Chuignes, was wounded again; this was his third time. His younger brother Andrew, who was with the 1st Pioneer Battalion, had been wounded a few days earlier; his second wound. For them the war was over …

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