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NEVOLA, Jacob
| Service Number: | 5134 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 July 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 50th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Finland, 16 August 1891 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Renmark, South Australia, 25 February 1941, aged 49 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Renmark Cemetery, S.A. Section H, plot 32 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Jul 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5134 | |
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| 22 Dec 1917: | Involvement Private, 5134, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1917: | Embarked Private, 5134, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Private, 5134, 50th Infantry Battalion | |
| 1 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 5134 | |
| Date unknown: | Wounded 5134, 50th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Paul Lemar
Jacob NEVOLA was born in Vaasa, Finland on 16.08.1892 to Jaako Nester NEVALA. His mother is not known.
He has left Finland and travelled to England and New York in 1901. We assume he travelled to Australia at some point after that.
Jacob NEVOLA joined the AIF on 20.07.1917 and was allocated service number 5134. He was attached to the 50th Infantry Battalion. He gave his next of kin as his father in Vaasa, Finland. In brackets he wrote ‘Russia’. He has listed that he is a Russian subject. His enlistment paper stated he served 53 days in the Mitcham Infantry but was discharged with comment: ‘unlikely to become an efficient soldier”.
He departed Australia with the battalion on 22.12.1917 travelling to France via Egypt and England. The battalion arrived in France on 29.04.1918.
The 50th Battalion took part in in the 1918 spring offensive, the battle for Villers-Bretonneux and finally in the battles for the Hindenburg Line
On 09.06. 1918, he was wounded in action sustaining a gunshot wound to the knee.
He returned to Australia on 30.01.1919 and was discharged as medically unfit on 01.03.1919. It would appear he received a disability pension.