Alexei Tolparoff

Russian spelling Алексей Толпаров

Born 15.05.1884     Place Salugardan, Ossetia, the Caucasus     Ethnic origin Ossetian     Religion Russian Orthodox

Arrived at Australia 14.05.1912

Residence before enlistment Port Pirie, SA

Occupation farmer & barman, worked at Broken Hill Associated Smelters

Service

service number 4891     enlisted 7.10.1915     POE Adelaide

unit 10th Battalion, 50th Battalion       rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1917       casualties WIA 1917, POW 1918

final fate RTA 5.03.1919       discharged 10.06.1919

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Residence after the war Adelaide, Victoria (?)

Family probably son Tolparoff Alex Robert (1941-1968), b. Los Angeles, KIA in Vietnam

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

digitised Red Cross wounded and missing file (AWM)

Red Cross POW file (AWM)

army pay file (NAA)

alien registration (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

[...] in April [1916] the Mongolia brought ten Russians from South Australia, among them five Ossetians from the Port Pirie smelters who had joined up together in October 1915 — Soltanoff, Gasieff, Mamsuroff, Dezantoff, and Tolparoff.

    [...] Three of the remaining Ossetians from Port Pirie who enlisted together were among the casualties [at Villers-Bretonneux]: Moss Malsag Mamsuroff was killed, Alexei Tolparoff was taken prisoner, and Bekza Boris Dezantoff was wounded.

From Roger Freeman,  Hurcombe's Hungry Half Hundred:

Private Gilbert Jacob's letter: 'It is fine to get back and see some of the old boys again. There was ce bon Tolparoff and Steve A and Scotty Gordon, my oldest pal...' (p.124)

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