Leonard Noweetsky
AWM memorial panel 108
Leonard Noweetsky
Queenslander Pictorial, supplement to The Queenslander, 31 July 1915, p. 23
Memorial in Tel El Kebir Cemetery
Alias Noswetsky
Born 1891
Place Zhmerinka, Podolsk, Ukraine
Ethnic origin Ukrainian
Religion Roman Catholic
Mother Sophia Neselovsky
Arrived at Australia
Residence before enlistment Rockhampton, Qld
Occupation Draughtsman
Service service number 532
enlisted 8.04.1915
POE Rockhampton, Qld
unit 26th Battalion
rank Driver
place Gallipoli, 1915
final fate Killed in an accident 24.01.1916 at Tel-el-Kebir
cemetery 16 Tel El Kebir War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
Naturalisation Served as Russian subject
Materials
Blog article
From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:
Leonard Noweetsky, a former draughtsman, survived Gallipoli only to be killed at Tel-el-Kebir (Egypt) in a bizarre accident when a roller got loose as he was attaching horses to it. The Board of Inquiry found no one was to blame. Noweetsky's personal effects -- a language book, letters, photos, papers -- never reached his mother in Zmerinka (Ukraine). His name on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial and a thin file with a few pages detailing his service in the AIF are all that remain of him.