Martin Nicolay Renaud

Born 15.01.1879     Place Riga, Latvia     Ethnic origin Latvian     Religion Church of England

Arrived at Australia

            from London     on 13.10.1908     per Loch Carron     disembarked at Melbourne

Residence before enlistment Port Adelaide, Ravensthorpe, WA, Perth, Boulder, WA

Occupation 1911 ‘kitchenman at present’, 1915 sailor

Service

service number 2656     enlisted 18.06.1915     POE Blackboy Hill, WA

unit 11th Battalion, 51st Battalion       rank Private

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

final fate RTA 17.10.1916       discharged 11.06.1917

Naturalisation 1911

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

One of the first Russian casualties in the 5th Division [at Armentières] was Martin Renaud, a former seaman from Riga, who received severe head wounds and was evacuated to Australia. This was his first experience of battle and he proved that what he wrote in 1911 after receiving his naturalisation certificate from the Australian authorities was no empty boast: ‘I am very proud to count myself as one of yours now and I will try to make myself worthy of it’.

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