John Volkoff

Russian spelling Иван Павлович Волков

Born 1885      Place Malyi Iukhtunur, Iaransk, Viatka (Kirov), North-Eastern Russia     Ethnic origin Russian     Religion Roman Catholic (?)

Father Volkoff, Pavel Polikarp     Mother -

Arrived at Australia

            from Far East     on 7.01.1912     per Nikko Maru     disembarked at Brisbane

Residence before enlistment Qld

Occupation carpenter

Service

service number 2208     enlisted 5.04.1915     POE Townsville, Qld

unit 15th Battalion       rank Private

place Gallipoli, 1915

final fate KIA 8.08.1915

memorial details 6 Lone Pine Memorial

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

digitised Roll of Honour card (AWM)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

The postal address was seldom properly recorded, in some cases because of an enlisting officer’s sheer inability to understand the Russian. Adding confusion was the fact that, in order to record the correct postal address of a Russian village, four administrative subdivisions are needed so that on the few occasions when this was done the result ended up being a sort of geographical brainteaser. For instance, John Volkoff’s address was recorded as ‘Weetsk, Pockesnky, Erask, Sergensky, Small, Uhtunose’: it was a bibliographer from Viatka who suggested I decipher it as Viatka province, Iaransk, Serdezh, pochinok Malyi Iukhtunur. [...] John Volkoff was killed at Hill 971, near Lone Pine, in Gallipoli; I would have tried to contact his relatives in Iukhtunur, but it is now too late. His village no longer exists.

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