CESARI, Italo
| Service Numbers: | 4070, V91112 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 115 Australian General Hospital |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 10 August 1893 |
| Home Town: | Sorrento, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Boatman, Grocer, Labourer, Gardener. |
| Died: | St Kilda, Victoria, Australia, 5 January 1973, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Matthews Lawn, Row B, Grave 51 |
| Memorials: | Melbourne Town Hall Honour Roll, Sorrento War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4070, 23rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 7 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 4070, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 4070, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne | |
| 4 May 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4070, 23rd Infantry Battalion |
World War 2 Service
| 9 Dec 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, V91112 | |
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| 20 May 1945: | Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, V91112, 115 Australian General Hospital |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Aaron Waddington
Italo Vincent Cesari was born to Arcangelo Cesare Cesari and Rosa Eugenia Corrà in Sydney Australia, 1893. His parents were both first generation Italian immigrants, Arcangelo from Villa Basilica, Lucca and Rosa from Tavon, Coredo Italy. Italo was a loved brother of two siblings and married his first wife Jean Arden Dixon in 1915 while serving in WW1. He had 4 children with Jean. Irene, Jean, Valda, and Vincent his only son. Listed as a boatman and a grocer in his early electorial rolls, latter rolls list him employed as being a labourer and gardener. He was very well known for his passion of Australian rules football, and may certainly of been Australia's first Italian player being involved with the Peninsula association. He was a former Dromana and Queenscliff footballer, and umpire. He inspired and taught many, playing with West Geelong against Hawthorn and was chosen for the ruck of the Second Eighteen. Not only serving in WW1 Italo was enlisted in WW2 with his son Vincent Cesari, in Melbourne Victoria under his then service number V91112. Having remarried in 1930 to then second wife Phoebe Isabella Page. Italo died a fully lived and happy old man on the 5th of January 1973 and was buried at the Springvale Botanical cemetery not far from his parents. I am Italo's great grandchild, I was born of his grandchild Toni Cesari the daughter of his only son Vincent Cesari. requiescat in pace
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