Fritz Winnin

Alias Fritz Carl Alfred Winnin, known as 'Fred'

Born 25.07.1892     Place Riga, Latvia

Ethnic origin German/Latvian     Religion Lutheran

Father Winnin, John     Mother Winnin, Lena

Residence before arrival at Australia worked on sailing barques as a sailor from Cardiff Port mostly to America

Arrived at Australia

            from New York     on 7.03.1916     per Milverton     disembarked at Newcastle (deserted ship – information from the family)

Residence before enlistment Newcastle

Occupation 1916 seaman; 1925 miner sewerage, 1939 labourer

Service

service number 2195     enlisted 8.03.1916     POE Newcastle

unit 1st Pioneer Battalion, 5th Pioneer Battalion       rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1917

final fate RTA 15.02.1918      discharged 11.07.1918 MU

WWI contacts friend Valdimar Hektor, with whom he served together and whose widow he married

Naturalisation 1940

Residence after the war Sydney

Family wife Amy Elsie Winnin (née Rylatt, late Hecktor), married 1918; children: Frederick John (1919-1939), William Thomas b. 1920, Elsie Margaret b. 1923, Gordon James b. 1925

Died 1960s

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

wife's alien registration (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

[During WWII] Fritz Winnin, employed by the Water Board, was threatened with the sack for being an alien, at the same time as his three sons were enlisting in the army and the RAAF.

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