Michael Tober

Alias Albert Michael     Russian spelling Михаил Альбертович Тобер

Born 17.03.1890     Place Volyn, Ukraine     Ethnic origin Russian?     Religion 1915 Russian Orthodox, 1917 Church of England

Father Tober, Albert     Mother Tober (née Stron), Marthra

Arrived at Australia

            from      on 06.1913     per Gosloff     disembarked at Port Adelaide

Residence before enlistment Adelaide, Melbourne

Occupation seaman, 1915 blacksmith, 1917 motor driver and mechanic, 1949 carpenter

Service 1

service number 2226     enlisted 27.02.1915     POE Keswick, SA

unit 10th Battalion       rank Private

place Gallipoli, 1915

final fate RTA 11.03.1916       discharged 4.07.1916 MU

Service 2

service number      enlisted 24.01.1917     POE Melbourne

unit engineers reinforcements       rank Private

place Depot     discharged 22.08.1917 MU

Naturalisation 1929

Residence after the war Liverpool, 1928 Cecil Park via Liverpool, 1939 Sydney, 1949 Canberra, 1956 Albury

Family wife Lily Teresa Tober (née Lawler), married 1917; sons Albert aka Jim, b.1920, Patrick James b.1921, daughters Mary Joan b. 1923 and Olga

Materials naturalisation (NAA) (Albert Michael Tober)

digitised service records (NAA)

army payfile (NAA)

Investigation Branch file 1      2 (digitised)  (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Albert Michael Tober [...], a former seaman invalided back to Australia after Gallipoli, [...] married in 1917 and had four children; even so, from time to time he would wander off, working on various construction projects. According to his granddaughter Janice: ‘He was versatile and worked at engineering (at the Wyangala Dam project), carpentry (cedar panelling at Parliament House, Canberra) and farming (innovative heated market-garden for early tomatoes) amongst other things’. Her grandfather, she added, was ‘a man who could put up a tent, do anything, and could do very good cooking. Dad spent a lot of time with his father — his mother and father sort of separated; pop went his way, a tent in the bush, you know, and he took dad with him, and dad was 14 or 15. And dad learnt a lot of the ways of grandfather.’

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