Julajs (Julius) Beern

Born 1891    Place Riga, Latvia    Ethnic origin Latvian    Religion Church of England

Father Beern, Jacob      Mother –

Arrived at Australia -

Residence before enlistment Melbourne

Occupation seaman

Service

service number 1107, 1887, 2107   enlisted 23.11.1914   POE Broadmeadows, Vic.

unit 3rd Battalion, 45th Battalion   rank Private

place Gallipoli, 1915; Western Front, 1916-1918      casualties WIA 1915, 1917

final fate RTA 21.03.1919       discharged 24.05.1919

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Family wife Catherine Beern (née Barker), married 1915 in London, died 1920; son Frederick Beern

Died 8.09.1920 in Melbourne Hospital

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

Passage for Wife (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

The first of these [war time] marriages [of the Russian Anzacs] took place well before the end of war when Julajs Beern, a Latvian former seaman, married a London girl. After being wounded at the Gallipoli landing, Beern was brought to London to recover, where he married, and soon returned to the trenches, in September 1915. He survived Gallipoli but on the Western Front was wounded again, and spent some time in English hospitals reunited with his wife for a while before being invalided back to Australia. He died a year later in Melbourne hospital, still intending to go to London to bring his wife out. She died only a couple of weeks after him, leaving behind a young son.

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