Peter Sterlesky

Alias Sterletsky, Strelitsky     Russian spelling Петр Иванович Стерлецкий

Born 29.06.1886     Place Ievlevo, Tiumen, Tobolsk, Siberia     Ethnic origin Russian     Religion Russian Orthodox

Father Sterletsky, John     Mother Sterletsky (née Spiridonoff), Annie

Arrived at Australia

            from Far East     on 13.10.1912     per Kumano Maru     disembarked at Brisbane

Residence before enlistment Brisbane

Occupation 1916 labourer; after army: labourer, lengthsman

Service

service number 5917     enlisted 25.07.1916     POE Brisbane

unit 26th Battalion       rank Private

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

final fate RTA 2.01.1919       discharged 3.04.1919 MU

Naturalisation 1920

Residence after the war Brisbane, Blackall, Brisbane, Nonda via Richmond, Monkland via Gympie, Charters Towers, Hughenden, Rockhampton, Qld

Family wife Isabella Esther Sterlesky (née Stephens), married 1926; 4 daughters, 1 son

Died 18.05.1953, Rockhampton

Materials naturalisation (NAA) (Sterlisky - in error)

digitised service records (NAA) (Sterletsky)

alien registration (NAA) (Sterlesky)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

[...] when Peter Sterlesky applied for naturalisation soon after repatriation, his police report said, ‘The applicant is not known to the Russians about Brisbane, as he does not fraternize with them’. It added that Sterlesky’s reason for not registering as an alien was ‘he was informed by other returned soldiers, that as he was a returned soldier, he need not do so’ — which, itself, suggests that he already belonged to the world of his war comrades. He worked all his life for the Queensland Railways as a lengthsman and it is not surprising to find other signs of being part of this other world, like his appointment as justice of the peace, in 1929.

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