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
Service (Depot)
enlisted 18.08.1917
POE Melbourne
unit Australian General Hospital
rank Orderly
discharged 04.1918
Naturalisation Served as Russian subject
Materials
Digitised service records (NAA)
Application to enlist in the AIF (NAA)
Blog article
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.