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Lucy's alien registration (NAA)

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Sequestration Order ... George Piter SEKACHOFF (NAA)

Group portrait of the 11th Howitzer Battery of the Australian Field Artillery. E02506, E02506KLEFT, E02506KRIGHT (AWM)

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Bungil shire council. - Western Star and Roma Advertiser, Toowoomba, 13 September 1930, p. 7

Roma magistrate's court. - Western Star and Roma Advertiser, Toowoomba, 25 March 1939, p. 3

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.

[...] Among those who were returned 'on account of Russian nationality' there were several men who had made no application to be discharged, and were not in any case noted for radical inclinations: John Siwezynski, who was decorated with a Belgian Croix de Guerre, Nicholas Korotcoff, Justin Gooliaeff, George Sekachoff (all from artillery units), and Richard Gregorenko from the 14th Field Ambulance. This selection of men, fuelled by the Russian scare, seems rather arbitrary. Nearly all of them were from the 4th Division (its 11th Field Artillery Brigade, where Smagin had earlier served, was completely purged of Russians); other divisional commanders did not bother to purge their ranks of Russians.