Russian AnzacsSidney Ivor Luck
| Alias | Sydney Ivor Luck (AIF service); Jewish name: Srool Itsek Luck |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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)