VECCHIA, Dominic Charles
| Service Number: | 1194 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 November 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Turin, Italy, 1871 |
| Home Town: | Geraldton, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | War Service related , Edward Miller Hospital, Victoria Park, Perth, Western Australia, 28 August 1922 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 1194, Mining Corps | |
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| 20 Feb 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 1194, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Dec 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), From 17th Battalion | |
| 30 Jan 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 1194, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), German Spring Offensive 1918 | |
| 4 Sep 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 1194, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), Discharged at the 5th Military District as medically unfit due to premature senility |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Steve Larkins
A 44 year old miner from Geraldton, Sapper Vecchia was married to Alice, and their residence listed as Snowden Street Geraldton on enlistment.
Probably because of his vocation he was allocated as a reinforcement for the Mining Corps, and embarked from Sydney in early 1916 on the HMAT Ulysses.
He was eventually assigned to the 3rd Tunnelling Company and is one of a very few soldiers to have his image captured for all time as he worked in an underground gallery in January 1918.
Sapper Vecchia returned to Australia in June 1918 presumably as a esult of illness or injury (Further research required) and was one of nearly 50% of returned men who died within 20 years of war's end; in his case just four years after he returned home. He is commemoriated on a plaque in the WA Garden of Remembrance.
Biography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Anthony Vecchia and Mary Vecchia nee Locco of Turin, Italy.
Commenced return to Australia on 17 June 1918 aboard HT Matatoa disembarking on 8 August 1918
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
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