Digitised service records (NAA)

Digitised Embarkation roll entry (AWM)

Approval of irregular grant (digital file)(NAA)

Alien registration 1 (digitised) 2 3 (digitised) (NAA)

Medical case file (NAA)

Blog article

Russian

English

Newspaper articles

Press fund. - Workers' Weekly, Sydney, 12 December 1924, p. 4.

More Bolshie gold. - Workers' Weekly, Sydney, 21 December 1928, p. 3.

Magistrates court. - Daily Mercury, Mackay, 8 November 1935, p. 9.

Ambulance attention. - Daily Mercury, Mackay, 8 June 1946, p. 2.

Ambulance attention. - Daily Mercury, Mackay, 12 October 1946, p. 2.

Golden casket. - Brisbane Telegraph, 19 March 1952, p. 12.

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Russians who joined the army together, or who met up at training camp, would often embark together. [...] The Karoola, which left Brisbane on 12 June 1915, carried eight Russians mostly from northern Queensland: Glowacki, Roomianzoff, Sekachoff, Karelin (6/9th Battalion), and Lopaten, Grehoff, Smagin and Volkoff (6/15th Battalion). In Sydney they were joined by three of their countrymen -- Kozakoff, Harbert and Kozakovshonok.

[...] The file of Nicholas Roomianzoff provides an opportunity to jump 20 years ahead to see what became of one of these vagabonds. When Roomianzoff came to Australia via the Far East as a young man, he worked as a labourer until enlisting in April 1915. At Gallipoli he got sick but recovered and rejoined his unit there; subsequently, on the Western Front, he was wounded twice (at Mouquet Farm and Dernancourt), on each occasion rejoining his unit. At the end of the war, after his discharge, he moved to the Mackay area and did railway construction work, shifting from place to place. By the beginning of the Second World War he is still at Mackay but had not become naturalised and, as an alien in war-time, had to register with the police again: his occupation at that stage is recorded as 'waterside worker'. In 1939 he moved to Darwin, back to Mackay, to Townsville, to Mackay -- back and forth, repeating the same pattern again and again. From his photograph of that year on his registration form, on which his fingerprints are also impressed, a tired-looking, withdrawn man gazes out at us as if saying, 'You don't trust me -- what do I care'. The last trace of him that I can find is at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Cairns, in 1968.