Joe Caplan
Alias Joseph Kaplan (shipping records); Joseph Caplan (naturalisation)
Russian spelling
Иосиф Каплан
Born 22.10.1892
Place Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania
Ethnic origin Jewish
Religion Jewish
Residence before arrival at Australia Left Russia when he was 14, went to Manchester where he was employed by cap manufacturers
Arrived at Australia
from England
on 29.05.1913
per Gneisenau
disembarked at Sydney
Residence before enlistment Sydney
Occupation 1913 hatmaker, 1914 traveller, 1916 waiter, ship steward, 1930 steward
Service service number 6043
enlisted 26.06.1916
POE Sydney
unit 19th Battalion, 3rd Battalion
rank Private, Temporary Corporal
place Western Front, 1917-1918
final fate RTA 22.01.1920
discharged 19.05.1920
Naturalisation 1914
Residence after the war Richmond, NSW
Died 15.01.1953, Richmond, NSW
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