Naturalisation (NAA) (Wiselenski)

Digitised WWI service records (NAA) (Pete Wishkenlski)

Digitised Embarkation roll entry (AWM) (Wishkenlski)

Medical case file (NAA) (Wishkenlski)

Personal case file 1 2 3 (NAA) (Wiselenski)

Digitised WWII service records (NAA) (Wiselenski)

Digitised WWII alien registration (NAA) (Wiselenski)

AWM WWII photos 1 2

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Елена Говор, Белорусские Анзаки, Białoruskie Zeszyty Historyczne, 2013, no. 40, c. 53-108. То же: Белорусские Анзаки, Неман, № 4, с. 152-167, № 5, с. 156-173.

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

I encountered real vigilance in only a few cases [of Russians' enlistment], of which Pete Wishkenlski from Byelorussia was one. Wishkenlski, enlisting in Brisbane, was singled out from other Russians and compelled to make a statutory declaration: 'My father and mother were born in Russia. I was born in Russia. I am not of German, Austrian, Bulgarian, or Turkish parentage.'

[...] The Russian Anzacs settling down with their farms became part of the last Australian generation to pioneer the land, establishing in the process an intimate connection with the land and its people. They were often few and far between in outback areas: Pete Wishkenlski, for instance, who'd been a tunneller in the army, settled on a returned soldiers' dried-fruits block at Red Cliffs near Mildura (Victoria) and, according to the local policeman, was 'the only Russian in this district'. For local people their only knowledge of Russians would have come from contact with people like Wishkenlski and other similar pioneers spread out all over Australia.