John Cherpiter
AWM memorial panel 150
Alias Cherpita
Russian spelling
Иван Черпита
Born 1882
Place Kamenets-Podolskii, Ukraine
Ethnic origin Ukrainian
Religion Greek Orthodox
Father Domitrey [Dimitry] or MItrofan Cherpiter
Mother Mary Cherpiter
Family
Wife Anastasia Cherpiter, daughter Lucy (Nadezhda)
Arrived at Australia
on 1912
Residence before enlistment Adelaide
Occupation Boot maker
Service service number 4749
enlisted 29.10.1915
POE Adelaide
unit 10th Battalion, 50th Battalion
rank Private
place Western Front, 1916-1917
final fate KIA 2.04.1917
memorial 26 Villers-Bretonneux, France
Naturalisation Served as Russian subject
Materials
Digitised service records (NAA)
Digitised Embarkation roll entry (AWM)
Digitised Roll of Honour circular (AWM)
Digitised Army payfile (NAA)
Blog article
From Falling stars: The story of Anzacs from Ukraine:
John Cherpiter, serving with the 50th South Australian Battalion, was killed in the battle for Noureil on 2 April 1917. Sadly, we know very little about him. A native of Kamianets-Podilskyi, he came to Australia a couple of years before the war, and worked as a boot-maker in Adelaide. Unusually among the Ukrainian Anzacs, he had a wife and daughter when enlisting. Two years after his death his wife Anastasia received his personal effects, which included '2 combs, small Australia badge, letters, Russian? official paper, shark tooth (mounted)'. She signed with a cross, which suggests she may have been illiterate.