Sidney Ivor Luck

Alias Sydney Ivor Luck (AIF service); Jewish name: Srool Itsek Luck
Born 16.03.1887
Place Zamosc, Lublin, Poland
Ethnic origin Jewish
Religion Jewish
Mother Pesia Luck
Family

Wife Isobel Gertrude Luck (nee Warnock), married 1919 in Glasgow, daughter Ann Vivien Francis Luck

Residence before arrival at Australia Left Russia with parents when he was young, lived in London, graduated from the Royal School of Mines, South Kensington and the University of London, was sent to Broken Hill by the Institution of Mining Metallurgy
Arrived at Australia from England
on 1.03.1912
per Grosser Kurfurst
disembarked at Adelaide
Residence before enlistment Broken Hill, NSW
Occupation 1914 surveyor
Naturalisation 1914
Residence after the war London
Died 28.11.1954, London

Service #1

Service number 1148
Enlisted 28.08.1914
Place of enlistment Morphettville, SA
Unit 1st Australian Stationary Hospital (Army Medical Corps)
Rank Private, Corporal, Lance Sergeant
Place Gallipoli, 1915
Discharged 22.07.1916 in England

Service #2 – British Army

Enlisted 1916
Unit Royal Engineers, Chatham
Rank 2nd Lieut., Captain, O.B.E.
Place Salonica 30.09.1916-4.01.1919, Constantinople 5.01.1919-18.02.1919
Discharged 1919

Materials

Digitised naturalisation (NAA)

Digitised service records (NAA)

Digitised Embarkation roll entry (AWM)

Sidney I. Luck, Observation in Russia, London : MacMillan and Co. , 1938 (Diary of a member of the British eclipse expedition to Omsk, 1936)

Blog article

Russian

English

Newspaper articles

Welcome Home. - Barrier Miner, Broken Hill, 31 July 1919, p. 1.

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