Charles Jacobsen
AWM memorial panel 153
Alias Jacobson
Born 17.12.1882
Place Riga, Latvia
Ethnic origin Latvian
Religion Wesleyan
Father Jacob Jacobsen
Arrived at Australia
from London
on 04.1903
per Jessie Osborn
disembarked at Fremantle, WA
Residence before enlistment Western Australia, Fremantle, Perth
Occupation 1907 labourer, 1915 carter & kangaroo shooter
Service service number 953
enlisted 14.05.1915
POE Blackboy Hill, WA
unit 28th Battalion, 51st Battalion
rank Private
place Gallipoli, 1915
casualties WIA 1915
final fate DOW 12.05.1916
cemetery 9 Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
Naturalisation 1907
Materials
Digitised naturalisation (NAA)
Digitised service records (NAA)
Digitised Embarkation roll entry (AWM) (Jacobson)
Roll of Honour (AWM)
Blog article
From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:
A number of Russians did remain in Egypt and Palestine, though -- some of them forever. Charles Jacobsen from Riga was one. A strong man, scarred with stab-wounds, who had made a living in Western Australia carting and kangaroo-shooting, Jacobsen got a head-wound at Gallipoli at the very end of the campaign. Although he recovered in Egypt, his wound re-opened just before he was due to leave for the Western Front, and he died from a cerebral abscess.