MIZZI, Joseph
| Service Numbers: | VX12776, VX12776 , VX12776 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 May 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2/2nd Railway Construction Company (RAE) |
| Born: | Malta, 10 February 1898 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Cook |
| Died: | Bronchopneumonia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 October 1969, aged 71 years |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria The Victorian Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 3 May 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX12776 | |
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| 27 May 1940: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX12776 , 2/2nd Railway Construction Company (RAE), embarked Melbourne for Liverpool on board SS Stratheden | |
| 2 Apr 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX12776, 2/2nd Railway Construction Company (RAE), embarked Glasgow for Middle East | |
| 23 Sep 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX12776 , embarked Middle East for Melbourne | |
| 30 Dec 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX12776 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private/Sapper Joseph Mizzi (Service No:VX12776) served in the AIF with 2 Railway Construction Coy RAE from 3 May 1940 to 30 December 1942 (Medically Unfit).
Joe was born in Malta in 1898 to George Mizzi (a Jeweller) and Carmel Tabone. Joe arrived in Melbourne, Victoria in 1923, and was a Cook in Melbourne in 1925 when he married Frances (Fanny) Marion Alice Fellows (b1903 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Fanny was working as a Machinist in Melbourne. Joe and Fanny settled in Melbourne, where they raised theirf amily Joe worked as a Cook before enlisting in the Army. Following his Discharge (Medically Unfit), he and Fanny remained in Melbourne, where Joe, unemployed for a number of years, was a Fishmonger when he died in 1969. Fanny died in 1987.
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