Jack Vengert

Alias Ivan Weingart; Vingert     Russian spelling Иван Вейнгарт

Born 2.05.1891     Place Kiev or Odessa, Ukraine     Ethnic origin Russian     Religion Russian Orthodox or Church of England

Father Vengert, Jim      Mother -

Arrived at Australia

            from Russia via China     on 1912     per -     disembarked at Brisbane

Residence before enlistment Brisbane, Sydney, Wyong NSW

Occupation 1917 railway watchman, 1915, 1918 cook, 1925 storekeeper

Wife Edeline Vengert, Wyong NSW

Service 1

service number 332     enlisted 16.02.1915     POE Liverpool, NSW

unit 18th Battalion       rank Private

place Gallipoli, 1915       casualties WIA 1915

final fate RTA 2.02.1916      discharged 9.06.1916

Service 2

service number 59380     enlisted 24.05.1918     POE Gosford, NSW

unit 18th Battalion       rank Private

place Western Front, 1918-1919

final fate RTA 9.08.1919      discharged 24.08.1919

Naturalisation 1925

Residence after the war Sydney, Brisbane, Sydney

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

Vengert, Jack - Naturalization certificate granted 24 April 1925 (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Frank Lesnie, who had landed at Gallipoli in August in company with a number of Russians from 17–20th Battalions, wrote home on 1 November: ‘I can only say this; the 18th Battn. … arrived here 10 weeks ago and now 64 of the original lot remain. Most of them have gone away sick and wounded, but I don’t know how many were killed. The 18th were dead unlucky, going into a charge the day following their landing.’ That charge was in the battle for Hill 60, a fierce engagement at close range. Two Ukrainian-born soldiers from the 18th Battalion received bayonet wounds in it: Jack Vengert, previously a cook, bayoneted in the wrist; Walter Pivinski, a former sailor, ‘wounded on the left eye with a bayonet’, also had shrapnel wounds to the hand, a ‘fracture of skull’, and was ‘wounded to the back through explosion of shell’. Both men were transported to Australia to recover, and both chose to return to the battlefields again.

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