Yan Soolkovsky

Alias Jan; Soolcovsky     Russian spelling Ян Сулковский

Born 14.05.1890     Place Mlava, Plotsk, Poland     Ethnic origin Pole     Religion Russian Orthodox & Roman Catholic

Residence before arrival at Australia was an apprentice in Russia for 2 years

Arrived at Australia

            from Far East     on 25.03.1914      per Kumano Maru     disembarked at Townsville, Qld

Residence before enlistment Mt Pleasant, Gympie, Qld

Occupation butcher

Service

service number 2014     enlisted 13.01.1915     POE Brisbane

unit 9th Battalion, 49th Battalion       rank Private

place Gallipoli, 1915; Western Front, 1916-1917      casualties WIA 1916, 1917

final fate RTA 30.01.1918       discharged 25.04.1918 MU (left hand amputated)

WWI contacts Walter Kalasnikoff

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Residence after the war Brisbane

Died 14.04.1920 Brisbane General Hospital (Meningitis, heart failure)

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

alien registration (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Russians who joined the army together, or who met up at training camp, would often embark together. Six Russians from Brisbane, for instance — the journalists Chirvin and Fedorovich, the engineer Romanovsky, the labourer Domilovsky, the former revolutionary turned cane-cutter Rosalieff, and the butcher Soolcovsky — all ended up together in the 9th Battalion’s 5th reinforcement, departing on the Kyarra on 16 April 1915, along with Korotcoff, a cane-cutter from Port Douglas.

    [...] William Kolesnikov, from Peretin in the Ukraine, had [...] horrific wounds [at Polygon Wood, 1917] — as well as wounds to his left arm, his jaw and mandible were fractured and his tongue was shot away. Yan Soolcovsky, a Gallipoli veteran who had been wounded previously at Mouquet Farm, now lost an arm at Polygon Wood. In 1920 he died in Brisbane with his fiancée at his side. Was there anybody to look after Kolesnikov? I could find no one.

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