Digitised service records (NAA)

Digitised Embarkation roll entry (AWM)

Roll of Honour (AWM)

Commemoration and blogs

Russian Anzacs blog (Russian)

Russian Anzacs blog (English)

Melbourne Recital Centre commemorative concert in Ganivahoff's memory

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

In 1916 Abdul Ganivahoff, a Tatar man, came to enlist at the Melbourne Town Hall. He could barely speak English, and was enlisted by a young NCO in poor health called Henry Nicholson. This Tatar man was very obviously different, even from Slavonic Russians, let alone from Britishers, but he had been able to slip past the barrier of the White Australia policy because he had arrived in Australia as a Russian sailor. Henry Nicholson discovered that Abdul had 'no living relatives or friends either in Russia or in this country' and asked Abdul if he wanted Nicholson to be recorded as his friend in the 'next of kin' section. In spite of the briefness of their contact Nicholson never forgot his adopted Tatar 'friend'. Upon making enquiries after the war, Nicholson was upset to learn that Abdul Ganivahoff had been killed in action in France, in early 1917.