Nathan Watchman

Born 02.1882     Place Navarenai, Kaunas, Lithuania     Ethnic origin Jewish     Religion Jewish

Arrived at Australia

            from Newcastle on Tyne, England     on 31.10.1911     per The Castle     disembarked at South Australia

Residence before enlistment Adelaide, Melbourne, Geelong, Vic

Occupation commercial traveller

Service

service number 5146, 1881     enlisted 28.09.1914     POE Geelong, Victoria (re-enlisted 29.01.1915, Melbourne)

unit 6th Battalion       rank Private

place Gallipoli, 1915       casualties WIA 1915

final fate RTA 4.09.1915      discharged 17.03.1916

Naturalisation 1914

Residence after the war 1939 Broken Hill

Wife Elsie Florence Watchman

Died 14.03.1949 at Heidelberg (?) Repatriation Hospital

Materials digitsed naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

About the landing [at Gallipoli] — no Russian diaries or letters exist to give an account of it. All that remains to tell this story from a Russian perspective is an occasional water-stained pay-book with its ink all smudged, which was in a Russian soldier’s pocket at that crucial moment of reaching the shore; or perhaps a brief reference made later in an official application, such as ‘I lost all my papers at the landing at Gallipoli’ (Nathan Watchman, from Lithuania, a former commercial traveller).

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