Emil Everd Hofdahl

Alias Emil Evered Hofdohl (alien registration)
Born 5.06.1889
Place Tammerfors (Tampere) or Helsingfors (Helsinki), Finland
Ethnic origin Finnish
Religion Church of England
Mother Wihelmina Hofdahl
Residence before arrival at Australia 6 years of experience on the sea
Arrived at Australia on 7.10.1916
per Cumberland
disembarked at deserted the ship
Residence before enlistment Melbourne
Occupation Engineer & fitter
Naturalisation Served as Russian subject

Service #1 – Depot

Enlisted 18.08.1917
Place of enlistment Melbourne
Unit Australian General Hospital
Rank Orderly
Discharged 04.1918

Materials

Blog article

Russian

English

Newspaper articles

International conflict. - Advertiser, Footscray, 18 August 1917, p. 3.

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

In April 1918 staff at the Australian General Hospital in Melbourne became suspicious of Emil Hofdahl, a Finnish seaman and engineer who was serving as a hospital orderly there: 'The impression there is that he is a German ... When Petrograd fell he expressed himself as being glad' -- even though he had a Swedish surname and spoke no German, that was enough to discharge him.

Map