Effim Chernianin

Alias Edward Peter Cheney     Russian spelling Ефим Чернянин

Born 20.01.1890     Place Eniseisk, Siberia  Ethnic origin Russian      Religion Roman Catholic (?)

Mother Chernianin, Agrafena

Residence before arrival at Australia served 3 ¾ years at the Russian Navy

Arrived at Australia

            from San Francisco  on 9.10.1912   per General Pasqua    disembarked at Port Pirie, SA

Residence before enlistment Port Pirie, Broken Hill, Adelaide

Occupation 1915 seaman, 1918 fitter and turner

Service

service number 5066   enlisted 27.12.1915   POE Adelaide

unit 10th Battalion   rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1917

final fate RTA 12.03.1918       discharged 15.07.1918

Naturalisation 1918

Residence after the war Adelaide, SA

Family Stella Luise Owens, married 1918 in Cheltenham, UK; later married Ruby Myrtle

Died 24.05.1960, South Australia

Materials digitised naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

court martial records (NAA)

army pay file (NAA)

Novel court excuse. - Barrier Miner (Broken Hill), 17 October 1940, p. 2

Hat under arm. - The Advertised (Adelaide, SA), 17 October 1940, p. 15

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Service or naturalisation records are not where you’d normally expect to find out about mates; yet even here, sometimes, a piece of information will surface unexpectedly. [...] From Effim Chernianin’s application for naturalisation, we learn about his friend Private Nicholls: they returned together from the front and for his own holding address Chernianin gave his friend’s mother’s address.

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