Ernest Tomrop

Born 24.02.1889     Place Vindava (Ventspils), Latvia     Ethnic origin Latvian/Scotch     Religion Church of England

Father -     Mother (Scotch)

Residence before arrival at Australia was at sea for 9 years

Arrived at Australia

            from Vindava     on 24.02.1908     per Neuminster     disembarked at Adelaide

Residence before enlistment Bordertown, Hahndorf, Tailem Bend, Pinirarvo Peak, Narmum, Blumberg, SA, Melbourne

Occupation 1912 labourer, 1916 seaman, 1920 aeroplane builder, 1921 rigger

Service

service number 534N     enlisted 17.04.1916     POE Melbourne

unit RANBT; 67th Squadron, 1st Squadron Australian Flying Corps       rank Private, 2nd Air Mechanic, 1st Air Mechanic

place Egypt, Palestine, 1916-1919

final fate RTA 5.03.1919     discharged 25.05.1919

Naturalisation 1912

Residence after the war 1921 Brunswick, Vic

Served 1920-1925 Australian Air Corps, Central Flying School, Laverton

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised WWI service records (NAA)

RAAF service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

The Australian Flying Corps was an élite unit and a small group of Russians was regarded as being sufficiently trustworthy to serve in it. They included three former seamen — Eloranta, Juckham and Tomrop — who served in the 1st Flying Squadron in Egypt. Edward Sevald, from Riga, who had studied at aviation school in Russia, had a successful career with the 3rd Flying Squadron in France as a sergeant mechanic. Frederick Dambelis, also from Riga, a former rigger who ‘understood motor car driving’, became an air-mechanic (2nd class).

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