Julian Szablowsky
Alias Shablowski
Russian spelling
Юлиан Шабловский
Born 13.05.1884
Place Dlugosiodlo, Lomza, Poland
Ethnic origin Polish
Mother K.M. Szablowski
Residence before arrival at Australia Was on Philippines Islands for 6 months
Arrived at Australia
from Manila
on 7.12.1908
per Hornby Grange
disembarked at Sydney
Residence before enlistment Sydney
Occupation Cook
Service service number 407
enlisted 11.08.1914
POE Sydney
unit AN&MEF, 1st Tropical
rank Private
place Rabaul, New Guinea, 1914-1915
final fate RTA 02.1915
discharged 4.03.1915 time expired
Naturalisation 1911
Residence after the war In 1915 left for the USA, 1942 New York, USA
Materials
Digitised naturalisation (NAA)
Digitised service records (NAA)
Digitised Embarkation roll entry (AWM) (Szablowski)
Blog article
Newspaper articles
Death from poison. A romantic Russian. - The Argus, 15 August 1913, page 15
Australia in occupation. Administration at Rabaul. (p.4. The garrison bakery). - Examiner, Launceston, 26 November 1914, page 5
From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:
Several Russians served in the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF), including Julian Szablowsky, from Poland. He had worked as a ship's cook on Australian vessels before the war, and was the first Russian to enlist and serve outside Australia: he left Australia on 19 August 1914 as a cook on the Berrima. The AN&MEF went to take possession of the German colonies in New Guinea and in September the Germans at Rabaul (the German Pacific headquarters) surrendered; Szablowsky then returned to Australia.