Paul Adamson

Alias Paul Alexander Adamson, Harry or Ivan Reher or Adamson

Born 14.10.1891  Place Revel (Tallinn), Estonia   Ethnic origin Estonian    Religion Church of England

Family wife Melvy Adamson, daughter Meva P. Adamson

Arrived at Australia -

Residence before enlistment Glebe, NSW; Victoria

Occupation able seaman

Service

service number 5030    enlisted 6.01.1915, 1.04.1915, 24.01.1916, 15.08.1916    POE Melbourne

rank Private     place Depot

discharged 13.03.1915, 20.05.1915, 11.05.1916, 1.11.1916 MU

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Residence after the war Melbourne

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

alien registration (NAA)

Intelligence section file (NAA)

Investigation branch file (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Paul Adamson, an Estonian from Revel, served 18 months in the Russian army and had a rather chequered career in Australia. He enlisted five times in the Australian army but never left Melbourne. After the war he was wanted for false pretences and, to evade police, masqueraded as a Russian ‘Ivan Reher from Petrograd’ — a rather unusual example of Russianisation, perhaps.

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