Naturalisation (NAA)

Digitised service records (NAA)

Digitised Embarkation roll entry 1 2 (AWM)

Vengert, Jack - Naturalization certificate granted 24 April 1925 (NAA)

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Newspaper articles

Wyong. Police court news. - The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate, 13 June 1918, p. 3.

O Susie! Says Vengert wouldn't marry her. - Truth, Sydney, 6 February 1921, p. 4.

Vanished. Vengert says wad went away. - Truth, Sydney, 8 April 1928, p. 23.

Mother seeks son.. - Advocate, Burnie, Tas., 5 Sept 1931, p. 2.

Building gutted. Tenants narrow escape. - Cairns Post, 15 August 1936, p. 6.

13-year-old girl and fruiterer. - Truth, Brisbane, 9 February 1941, p. 23.

Fruiterer is freed in court. - Truth, Brisbane, 16 February 1941, p. 27.

Life was tough; Women's woes. - Truth, Sydney, 23 February 1941, p. 21.

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Frank Lesnie, who had landed at Gallipoli in August in company with a number of Russians from 17-20th Battalions, wrote home on 1 November: 'I can only say this; the 18th Battn. ... arrived here 10 weeks ago and now 64 of the original lot remain. Most of them have gone away sick and wounded, but I don't know how many were killed. The 18th were dead unlucky, going into a charge the day following their landing.' That charge was in the battle for Hill 60, a fierce engagement at close range. Two Ukrainian-born soldiers from the 18th Battalion received bayonet wounds in it: Jack Vengert, previously a cook, bayoneted in the wrist; Walter Pivinski, a former sailor, 'wounded on the left eye with a bayonet', also had shrapnel wounds to the hand, a 'fracture of skull', and was 'wounded to the back through explosion of shell'. Both men were transported to Australia to recover, and both chose to return to the battlefields again.