Peter Swirgsdin

Latvian spelling Peter Zvirgsdiņš

Born 22.11.1888     Place Riga, Latvia     Ethnic origin Latvian     Religion Church of England

Father Andrew     Mother Annie (Amelia Mednis)

Arrived at Australia

            from London     on 16.07.1910     per Durham     disembarked at Townsville, Qld

Residence before enlistment Townsville, Qld

Occupation engine driver, 1918 foreman

Service

service number 21275     enlisted 18.10.1915     POE Townsville, Qld

unit 9th FAB, 7th FAB       rank Gunner, Bombardier

place Western Front, 1917      casualties WIA 1917

final fate RTA 30.01.1918       discharged 26.04.1918

Naturalisation 1918

Residence after the war Townsville, Qld, 1947 Cairns, Qld

Family wife Hilda Alice Swirgsdin (nee White), married in England ca.1917, son Herbert Peter b. 1918

Materials digitised naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

digitised application for passage for wife (NAA)

alien registration (NAA)

DVA file (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Moreover, some Russians considered that taking an oath of allegiance to the king at enlistment dispensed with the need to take another oath for naturalisation — in the words of Peter Swirgsdin, who had been severely wounded at Passchendaele in 1917: ‘I have taken the Oath of Alligian to His Majesty the King once and I consider it true for all times’.

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