PINKEVITCH, Constantine
| Service Number: | 3531 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 April 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Kiev, Ukraine, 21 May 1889 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tanner |
| Died: | Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, New South Wales, Australia, 19 October 1962, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-211. 14. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3531, 7th Field Ambulance | |
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| 24 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 3531, 7th Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 24 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 3531, 7th Field Ambulance, HMAT Ascanius, Brisbane | |
| 11 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3531, 7th Field Ambulance, Temp Cpl Cook, 1st MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, now resting at Sandgate Cemetery, not forgotten.
59 years ago today, on the 24th October 1962, Temporary Corporal Constantine Pinkevitch, 7th Australian Field Ambulance (Reg No-3531), tanner and farmer from Brisbane, Queensland and Mt. Morgan, QLD, and 30 Buchanan Street, Hamilton, New South Wales and 10 Samdon Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 73. ANGLICAN 3-211. 14. (died at Concord Repatriation General Hospital, N.S.W. on the 19th October 1962).
Born at Kiev, Ukraine on the 21st May 1889 to Michail and Vaselysa Pinkevitch of 402 Dioranalma Street, Harbin, Manchuria; husband of Ellen Pinkevitch nee Reynolds (married 1920, Mt. Morgan, QLD, died?), Con enlisted April 1915 at Brisbane, QLD.
Suffering no wounds or illness, Con returned home April 1919, being discharged on the 11th June 1919.
Many thanks to Khrystyna Misko for the notification and family history.
Migrated to Brisbane from Harbin, China 6th March 1911 per Kumano Maru.
Served 4 years and 58 days at Gallipoli, the Middle East and the Western Front as a private and Temporary Corporal-cook.
Moved to Newcastle 1922-1923.
Con’s two sons (Leo Carson, N152205, Constantine James, N478613) served during WW2.
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at the gravesite in remembrance of Mr. Pinkevitch’s service and sacrifice during The Great War.
Lest We Forget.
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