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During the First World War around one thousand Russian born servicemen fought in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). They were the largest national group in the AIF after British, New Zealand and Canadian born servicemen. Besides ethnic Russians these Russian born Anzacs included members of a score of different ethnic groups who lived in Russia - Finns and other Scandinavians, Estonians, Latvians, Germans, Lithuanians, Jews, Poles, Byelorussians, Ukrainians, Ossetians, Georgians, Tatars, as well as Western European nationals born in Russia or posing as Russian subjects at enlistment. Their story is told in my book
Elena Govor,
Russian Anzacs in Australian History,
Sydney, UNSW Press in association with NAA, 2005, 310 p., 44 ills
The book is available from the UNSW Press, the National Archives of Australia, and Australian bookshops.
This site provides additional information about Russian Anzacs as well as statistical and other data. It lists all the Russian Anzacs' names with links to a fact sheet about each of these servicemen. Fact sheets contain biographical and service details as well as a list of materials about the serviceman. In many cases these are digitised archival documents and it is possible to see them on the web using links in the fact sheets.
To see files from the National Archives of Australia (NAA) go to www.naa.gov.au, choose RecordSearch and search either as a guest or as a registered user for files under the serviceman's surname.
To see materials from the Australian War Memorial (AWM) go to www.awm.gov.au, choose Biographical Databases from the menu and then search in Roll of Honour, Honours and Awards, Red Cross Wounded and Missing or POWs.
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Website is made by Elena Govor © 2005 ISBN 0-9580800-0-3
Technical support and design Ralphie Kabo
If you are using information from this website please place a reference to www.russiananzacs.narod.ru
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