Samuel Rappeport

Russian spelling Самуил Лазаревич Раппепорт

Born 8.07.1890     Place Nikopol, Ukraine     Ethnic origin Jewish     Religion Jewish

Father Rappeport, Lazarus      Mother -

Arrived at Australia

            from Nikopol     on 17.10.1904     per Stuttgart     disembarked at Fremantle, WA

Residence before enlistment Perth

Occupation boot maker

Service

service number 2559     enlisted 23.05.1916     POE Melbourne

unit 43rd Battalion       rank Private

place Western Front, 1917-1918      casualties WIA (gassed) 1918

final fate RTA 10.12.1918       discharged 7.03.1919, MU

Naturalisation 1913

Residence after the war Perth, Mount Lawley, WA

WWII served 1940-1944, 10 GB, Y Coy

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised WWI service records (NAA)

WWII service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

The Lakovsky, Lebovich and Rappeport families from southern Russia were among those that did continue with their small businesses in Australia. They came to Western Australia at the end of the 19th century and their sons would grow up just like other ordinary Australian city boys — with the same pursuits and interests, and undergoing the same military training compulsory for Australian boys at the time. The difference for these Jewish boys was that, in Australia, they had the benefits of a better start in life, and a better general education, than would have been their lot in Russia. The question of their identity was probably of little concern for most of this younger generation: for them, Russianness and Jewishness were already giving way to a sense of being Australian — or being ‘British’.

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