Paul Ephraim Zundolovich

Alias Ephrem; Zundolovitch; Father Paul    Russian spelling Павел Ефремович Зандолович (Зундолович?)

Born 15.05.1865     Place Maished, Telshiai, Kaunas, Lithuania     Ethnic origin Jewish     Religion Roman Catholic

Residence before arrival at Australia received theological education

Arrived at Australia

            from Europe     on 1892     per Austral     disembarked at Sydney

Residence before enlistment 1893 Broken Hill, 1895 Wentworth, 1898 Wilcannia and White Cliffs, 1908 trip to Europe, 1909 Bourke, 1913 Wilcannia, 1915 Hay, NSW

Occupation Roman Catholic priest

Service

service number Chaplain Captain     enlisted 1.12.1916     POE NSW

unit  Battalion       rank Chaplain Captain

place trip on military transports to England and back, 1916-1917

final fate RTA 17.03.1917      discharged 15.05.1917

Naturalisation 1898, NSW

Residence after the war Moama, NSW

Died 7.05.1935, Moama, NSW

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

naturalisation certificate 1898 (State Archives of NSW)

Personal [entry 7]. - Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW), 17 March 1915, page 2

Father Paul Zundulovich. - Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW), 17 August 1916, page 4

Church notes [pp.3-4]. - Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW), 9 June 1917, page 4

Baptised new bishop. - Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW), 21 September 1931, page 3

Father Paul dead. - Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW), 7 May 1935, page 2

‘Faith and river red gums live on in Moama’s new church’, Catholic Weekly, 11 October 1999.

Fr. Tom Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, vol. 1. Vol.1-2, Armadale, Vic., [1979]

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Another outback story, but with a twist, was that of Father Paul Ephraim Zundolovich, a Roman Catholic priest whose name and birthplace (near Telshiai, now Lithuania) strongly suggest his origin was Jewish. He came to Australia late in the 19th century and travelled on horseback through remote outback areas, preaching among pioneers and Aborigines, carrying with him a suitcase which has ended up on display in Moama parish church, in the Riverina, where ultimately he spent 19 years as parish priest. The case ‘contained a small portable altar, a chalice which screwed into a leather case, cruets, and ciborium’. An iron poker also in the case was ‘an implement’ believed to have been ‘used to stoke camp fires when he was on the road’. During the war he accompanied Australian troops to England as a chaplain.

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