Peter Sterlesky
Peter Sterletsky
Courtesy of Jack Carlos
Alias Sterletsky, Strelitsky
Russian spelling
Петр Иванович Стерлецкий
Born 29.06.1886
Place Ievlevo, Tiumen, Tobolsk, Russia
Ethnic origin Russian
Religion Russian Orthodox
Father John Sterletsky
Mother Annie Sterletsky (née Spiridonoff)
Family
Wife Isabella Esther Sterlesky (née Stephens), married 1926; daughters Myra, Yvonne, Irene, Jean, son Peter James Sterlesky
Arrived at Australia
from Far East
on 13.10.1912
per Kumano Maru
disembarked at Brisbane
Residence before enlistment Brisbane
Occupation 1916 labourer; after army: labourer, lengthsman
Service service number 5917
enlisted 25.07.1916
POE Brisbane
unit 26th Battalion
rank Private
place Western Front, 1917-1918
casualties WIA (gassed) 1917
final fate RTA 2.01.1919
discharged 3.04.1919 MU
Naturalisation 1920
Residence after the war Brisbane, Blackall, Brisbane, Jambin, Nonda via Richmond, Monkland via Gympie, Charters Towers, Hughenden, Rockhampton, Qld
Died 18.05.1953, Rockhampton
Materials
Digitised naturalisation (NAA) (Sterlkesky - in error)
Digitised service records (NAA) (Sterletsky)
Digitised Embarkation roll entry (AWM)
Repatriation Medical case file (NAA) (Sterletsky)
Alien registration (NAA) (Sterlesky)
Family tree on Ancestry.com
Blog article
Newspaper articles
Jambin news. - Evening News, Rockhampton, 27 August 1925, p. 5.
Northern miner. - Northern Miner, Charters Towers, 29 December 1927, p. 2.
From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:
[...] when Peter Sterlesky applied for naturalisation soon after repatriation, his police report said, 'The applicant is not known to the Russians about Brisbane, as he does not fraternize with them'. It added that Sterlesky's reason for not registering as an alien was 'he was informed by other returned soldiers, that as he was a returned soldier, he need not do so' -- which, itself, suggests that he already belonged to the world of his war comrades. He worked all his life for the Queensland Railways as a lengthsman and it is not surprising to find other signs of being part of this other world, like his appointment as justice of the peace, in 1929.