Kazys Alseika (1917-1984), the Tasmanian One, by Ann Tündern-Smith

Updated 13 March 2026.

3x Kazys Alseika

The first thing to note about Kazys Alseika is that there were 3 of them.  That is to say, 3 men called Kazys or Kazimieras (the long form of Kazys) with the family name Alseika came to Australia during the 1947-49 period.  What’s more, the 3 were the only men with the family name Alseika to arrive under the IRO Mass Scheme, to give the movement of Displaced Persons to Australia during 1948-54 its formal name.

How do we separate them one from the other?  If you haven’t thought about it before, the answer is birthdates, the reason why officials, the health system, and anyone else who needs to sort one namefellow from another, immediately wants to know your birthdate as well as your full name.

Our Kazys Alseika, the one who came on the First Transport, the USAT General Stuart Heintzelman, was born on 8 June 1917.  The second Kazys was born on 15 December 1918 and arrived on the Nelly on 15 July 1949.  Kazimieras was born on 27 February 1918 and arrived on the Second Transport, the General MB Stewart, on 14 February 1948.

The Kazys Alseika who came to Australia on the Heintzelman

Source:  National Archives of Australia

Newspaper reports are unlikely to distinguish one Kazys Alseika from another, although Kazimieras might stick to that form of his name.  This means that we need to rely on those official documents with birthdates, although they may give us other clues, like where they lived and worked.

Those documents tell us that the second Kazys Alseika was sent to Yallourn, Victoria, for his first job.  His naturalization record and a newspaper obituary say that he stayed in Victoria.  Kazimieras was sent initially to Western Australia but received Australian citizenship when resident in South Australia.  We’ll soon find that our Kazys was sent to Tasmania after his initial fruit-picking, so place of residence is another way to separate these three.

Our Kazys Goes to Work

Starting with the Bonegilla card for our Kazys, we see that he was one of the 187 or more fruit pickers sent to Victoria’s Goulburn Valley in late January 1948.  He was allocated to AW and JF Fairley of Shepparton.  He stuck it out for more than 9 weeks, returning to the Bonegilla camp on 7 April.

His next allocation was to the Commonwealth Carbide Company at Electrona, Tasmania, which actually was a different company with a similar name, the Australian Commonwealth Carbide Company.  Thanks to Ramunas Tarvydas, in From Amber Coast to Apple Isle, we have an assessment from Jonas Motiejūnas of the hard physical nature of the work.

If a former DP has moved around a lot, we often can follow those movements from their application for naturalization.  When our Kazys applied in October 1953, he did not mention Electrona or a carbide company.  Instead, he recorded that he was then working as a spray painter for a company called Cannon & Hornby of Glenorchy, Tasmania.  He had been there since 8 November 1949, the second anniversary of the day he arrived at the Bonegilla camp.

An article in Launceston’s Saturday Evening Express newspaper of 31 May 1952, headed New Firm’s Success, tell us about Kazys’ employer.  Cannon & Hornby made electric coppers (presumably to heat water for laundry), domestic hot water services and a hot water service specially for the dairy farmer.  They also made refrigerator cabinets for Australian-made refrigerator units and electric cooking ranges.  At this time, 18 months before Kazys submitted that he had been working for them since late 1949, they employed 28 staff.

Ramunas Tarvydas, in From Amber Coast to Apple Isle, notes that Kazys were first at Electrona but then with a company called Derby Products.  This seems to have been a company specialising in heating and air-conditioning products.  I write “seems”, as references to the company are still on the Web, but links lead to dead pages.  If Kazys had become a specialist spray painter, his work on heating and air-conditioning products would have been similar to his work at Cannon & Hornby.

A group of Hobart Lithuanians about 1950:  Kazys Alseika is on the right

Source:  Mūsų Pastogė 31 July 2000 p 4

Tarvydas has called Alseika “Kazimieras” on page 158, but this also was the version of his name used on the one document in the Arolsen Archives which relates to him.  We know that the Arolsen Archive document is about our Kazys because of the birthdate.

Kazys Marries

Kazys married Marcia Ina Paul at New Town, Hobart, on 5 January 1950.  They were living on Butler Avenue, Moonah. She had brought 2 children into the marriage.  It looks like Marcia won any discussion about religion, given that they were married in a Congregational Church although Kazys had previously stated that he was a Roman Catholic.

The wedding made the social pages of the Hobart Mercury newspaper, on 28 February 1950, under the heading of Some Recent Tasmanian Weddings.

Kazys became an Australian citizen on 15 December 1955.  It’s interesting to note that the two women who swore in relation to his application that they had known him for some years and that he was a person of good repute had married into his wife’s family. Her maiden name was Cook, and these two women, both of whom gave their occupation as housewife, used the family name Cook also.

Rocky Kazys Alseika

It seems that at least one child was born in the marriage.  A football club register of all players prepared by a diligent supporter and placed on the Web gives the birthdate of Rocky Kazys Alseika as 19 December 1959.  The football club was the Cygnets, Australian Rules players from the township of Port Cygnet in Southern Tasmania, but the register records zero games for Rocky.

That is an unusual name to give a child, but Rocky Marciano, undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion from 1952 to his 1956 retirement, certainly was a well-known name in the 1950s.  Rocky Marciano might have been on Kazys’ mind when his very own son was born.

Our Kazys Dies Early, After Building a House

Sad to report, Kazys had died already when Ramunas was doing his research in the 1990s.  His date of death was 21 November 1984, so he was only 67 at the time. Ramunas was able to interview Marcia though, using her report on the building on their own Derwent Park house in his book.

Source:  Ramunas Tarvydas, From Amber Coast to Apple Isle, p 64

Marcia lived as a widow for another 15 years, dying in 1995 and being buried besides Kazys.  Their burial place is the Kingston Cemetery, in a town so close to Hobart that it might well be a suburb now.

The plaque where Kazys and Marcia, or their ahses, are buried

Source:  Julie Henderson & Lacey Milier on Find A Grave

Rocky did not survive long after his parents, dying on 29 August 2005 when only 45 years old.

Rocky Alseika's plaque in the Cornelian Bay Cemetery needed restoration
when this photograph was taken, but his image is clear still

Source:  MargaretM on Find A Grave

Our Kazys in Lithuania and Germany

Kazys had been born on 8 June 1917 in Kretinga, in Klaipėda County, making him another Samogitian.  His parents were another Kazys and Adolfina.  The Hobart Mercury report on the Alseika wedding calls Kazys “the youngest son of Mr and Mrs K Alseika”.

On a statutory declaration in relation to his application for naturalization, Kazys declared that he had left Lithuania on 10 October 1944, which was rather late to be leaving that invaded nation.  He arrived in Germany on 12 October 1944, he declared.

In an Arolsen Archives list of Lithuanians living in Oldenburg in the British Zone of occupied Germany, Kazys is shown at the same address as one “Viktora” Alseika.  The occupation for both is Bauer, German for farmer.  Since first I thought that this had something to do with building, I looked more closely at “Viktora”, to see that “she” was männl., short for männlich, German for male or masculine.  Someone has left the “s” off the end of Viktoras’ name.  He was born 9 years before Kazys, in 1908.

This would have made him only 39 in 1947, within the age range Australia was considering and raising the question of why he did not come to Australia with Kazys.  The possibilities are that he applied but was rejected, or that he decided to hold out for another country.  Either way, 3 documents digitised by the Arolsen Archives have him setting out for Canada on 13 April 1949.

Perhaps Viktoras preferred a colder climate.  Kazys certainly got a climate as cold as Australia gets in Tasmania.

CITE THIS AS: Tündern-Smith, Ann (2026) 'Kazys Alseika (1917-1984), the Tasmanian One'

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Antanas Galatiltis (1923-1983): From Farm Boy to Electrical Engineer, by Daina Pocius and Ann Tündern-Smith

Updated 7 March 2026.

Lithuanian life for Antanas Galatiltis

An electrical engineer, Antanas was born in the city of Švenčionys, 84 kilometres north of Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, on 23 April 1923.  He attended the Vytautas Didysis High school in Vilnius, graduating in 1941. 

He left Lithuania by himself in 1944, fleeing as far as the Baltic Children’s Home near Lübeck in northern Germany.  Here he taught primary school until the possibility of leaving for Australia arose in September-October 1947.  During this time, he was living in Camp Riga in Lübeck.  

He had given his occupation as teacher on the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) Displaced Person (DP) Registration Form which is held and digitised by the Arolsen Archives.  Presumably he had trained as a teacher during 1941-44, after high school, and taught then as well.

He told the Australian selection team that he had 3 years' experience as a farm worker.  Possibly that was a summary of work done on a family farm.  Of course he was one of those selected then for resettlement, travelling on the First Transport, or we would not be discussing him.

Antanas Galatiltis' photo from his Bonegilla card

Source:  National Archives of Australia

Off to Forestry, Mt Gambier, South Australia

On 9 January 1948, Antanas was one of a group sent from the Bonegilla camp to work for the Woods and Forest Department at Mount Gambier in southeast South Australia.  Jedda Barber's father, Valentinas Dagys, was another of that group.  Kostas Bušma, Stasys Čibiras, and Algis Jakštas are 3 more from this group whom we have met already in this blog.

The working and living conditions offered by the Woods and Forests Department in 1948 would have been no better than those described by Pranas Nagys in a series of articles in Mūsų Pastogė 50 years later.  Pranas was part of a group which reached Mt Gambier on 30 March 1949.  Here is what he wrote about the living conditions, translated from the issue of 2 June 1997.

Living Conditions in the Forestry Camp

“Living conditions here were worse than in the sugar cane fields.  We had a water tap by the barracks, but there was no place to shower.  There was no river and the weather was cold.  The wood-burning stove in the kitchen was only suitable for boiling a pot of rice.

“Once a week, we would organise to wash.  We would empty one large pot of water into a large tub, and it would be enough for two men.  While the two of them were bathing, we would boil water for the next two …

“We had to make sure that the last two would have time to bathe by 8 am on Saturday, when the bus left for Mt Gambier.  So, according to a pre-arranged list, we would wake each other up from sleep for a wash.

“Going to town was very important, as it was necessary to bring food for the whole week.  There were no shops in the forest.  A dairy farmer lived nearby.  We bought milk and eggs from him every day.  Bread was delivered to the barracks every morning.  We brought all the other products from Mt. Gambier.

“There was no way for each of us to cook separately, as there was only one stove, which could hold only one pot.  We decided that we needed a cook.  One of us would cook for everyone, and we would pay him 5 shillings a week for that work.  Modestas Čiplys agreed to be the cook …

“Our cook had to boil water for tea every day.  In the evening, he would cook what he could.  The rest of us had to bring him firewood from the forest and chop it up.  We carried broken dry branches and trees.

“On cold nights, we would put everything we had in our suitcases on our beds.  We would put our jackets and all our shirts between the blankets to make it warmer.  In the evening, we would stoke the heater, one to each room.  After they went out, it was very cold in the morning.  Sometimes the frost would turn white on the grass until the sun rose and melted it.”

Pranas and his peers tried hard to get back to sugar cane cutting, which had been their first job in Australia.   Those not used to cane cutting reported it as hot, dirty work, since the cane fields had been burnt to remove dried cane leaves and vermin first.  That says a lot about the work they were expected to do in the forests around Mount Gambier.

Antanas in Adelaide

Antanas was released from his contract to work where directed along with nearly everyone else from the First Transport, on 30 September 1949.  An Alien Registration record card kept by the Adelaide branch of the National Archives reveals that he had got himself to Adelaide even before that date, since he advised Immigration officials of a South Terrace addressed in the central city on 27 August.

His next employer was the General Motors Holden plant in the suburb of Woodville.  He lived at 4 different addresses during this time, up to January 1952.

Antanas Takes Up Study

That year, he enrolled in the Electrical Engineering with the South Australian Institute of Technology.  By day he worked at Holden factory, and in the evenings he studied.  He graduated from this course in 1959.  The South Australian Institute of Technology became part of the University of South Australia, which merged with the University of Adelaide on 5 January 2026.

Antanas' Work

Antanas worked as a draftsman with the Electricity and Water Supply Department (E&WS) from 1954, and for the Post Master General from 1956 until 1959. Once he graduated in 1959, he began working with electrical devices in the Engineering Department at the Weapons Research Establishment (WRE) at Salisbury.

Australian Citizen and Active Lithuanian

On 13 February 1956, Antanas was granted Australian citizenship in the Adelaide suburb of St Peters.

Antanas was a great supporter of Adelaide Lithuanian House and was Vice-President of the Australian Lithuanian National Council for two terms. He was a member of the Adelaide Lithuanian Architects and Engineers Society.

Antanas' Early Death

He died, aged only 60, on 8 July 1983.

His black granite headstone in the Centennial Park Cemetery, Pasadena, is adorned with a carved Lithuanian cross, his name, birthdate and date of death.

Antanas Galatiltis headstone in the Centennial Park Cemetery, Pasadena, Adelaide

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'Folder DP1129, names from GALANTER, HUNA to GALAUSKA, Reinis (2)', 3.1.1 Registration and Care of DPs inside and outside of Camps, DocID: 67117458 (?tanas GALATILTÍS), ITS Digital Archive/Arolsen Archives https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search/person/67117458?s=GALATILTIS%20&t=2737450&p=0, accessed 4 March 2026.

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Antanas Martisius (1923-?) Another Who Left, by Ann Tündern-Smith and Rasa Ščevinksienė

Few public records

Antanas Martisius is one of the 31 Heintzelman passengers whose selection papers have gone missing. In addition, there were 3 Displaced Persons with the same name in Germany after World War II.

At least we know from his Bonegilla card that our Antanas had a birthdate of 1 December 1923, so we can focus on a man with that name and birthdate. The Bonegilla card also says that he was one of the 7 sent to the Pyramid Hill Quarries in northwest Victoria.

Antanas' photo from his Bonegilla card

Source:  National Archives of Australia

Antanas' Lithuanian past

The DP Registration Record form completed in Germany in November 1946 says he was born in Šakai in Marijampolė County, now close to the eastern border of the Kaliningrad exclave. His parents were Juozas Martisius and the former Prančiska Butkiūte.

His usual trade or occupation was stated to be smith, which presumably was a blacksmith as opposed to workers in metals other than iron.

A 1942 census in Lithuania, conducted despite the War, gives more information about Antanas and his family.

They actually lived in the Daugėliškiai village in the Šakiai district.  The parents married in 1921.  The census shows that they had had 9 children 21 years later, of whom 8 had survived (4 daughters and 4 sons). 

Antanas was born in Daugėliškiai village and had finished elementary school.  He was working as a metal turner at the Malcanas agricultural machinery factory in Šakiai.  Being what Australians call a "fitter and turner" would explain the "smith" description on his DP registration form.

Alien Registration Details

His Alien Registration Application form says that he was 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, so he towered almost as much as the 6 feet 3 inch (1.9 m) tall Lembit Koplus, his fellow Pyramid Hill worker.

The file which contains his Alien Registration Application form also has his original Certificate of Registration under the Aliens Act, a passport-like document. It was issued in September 1952 to replace an earlier Certificate which was mutilated. This means that there is no record of his movements after leaving the Bonegilla Camp for Pyramid Hill until a Rae Street, Fitzroy, address at the start of the new Certificate.

Later changes of address were to a hostel in Eildon, Victoria, in September 1953 and to semi-rural Clarinda, then on the outskirts of Melbourne but now definitely a southeastern suburb, in July 1956.

Antanas Leaves

Then the final record states that Antanas left the Commonwealth (of Australia) on 11 July 1958 on a passenger ship, the Oronsay. It sailed a trans-Pacific route, stopping at both Vancouver, Canada, and San Francisco in the United States.

The Oransay was favoured by several others who left Australia for the Americas. The first was Viktoras Kuciauskas in 1956, bound for the love of his life in the United States. The peripatetic Vladas Navickas left Australia on this ship in early in 1959. Veronika Tutins, now Brokans, travelled on the Oronsay with her family in 1960, probably with the aim of joining her successful brother-in-law.

After Antanas left Sydney on the Oronsay, the trail has gone cold. There appear to be no further public records of the life of our Antanas Martisius.

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