Charles Jacobsen

Alias Jacobson

Born 17.12.1882     Place Riga, Latvia       Ethnic origin Latvian     Religion Wesleyan

Father Jacobsen, Jacob       Mother -

Arrived at Australia

            from London     on 04.1903      per Jessie Osborn    disembarked at Fremantle, WA

Residence before enlistment Western Australia, Fremantle, Perth

Occupation 1907 labourer, 1915 carter & kangaroo shooter

Service

service number 953   enlisted 14.05.1915   POE Blackboy Hill, WA

unit 28th Battalion, 51st Battalion   rank Private

place Gallipoli, 1915      casualties WIA 1915

final fate DOW 12.05.1916

cemetery details 9 Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt

Naturalisation 1907

Materials digitised naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

Roll of Honour card (AWM)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

 A number of Russians did remain in Egypt and Palestine, though — some of them forever. Charles Jacobsen from Riga was one. A strong man, scarred with stab-wounds, who had made a living in Western Australia carting and kangaroo-shooting, Jacobsen got a head-wound at Gallipoli at the very end of the campaign. Although he recovered in Egypt, his wound re-opened just before he was due to leave for the Western Front, and he died from a cerebral abscess.

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