Guerino QUADRIO MM

Badge Number: S10347, Sub Branch: Broken Hill, NSW
S10347

QUADRIO, Guerino

Service Number: 3358
Enlisted: 24 January 1916, Enlisted at Townsville, QLD
Last Rank: Sapper
Last Unit: 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company)
Born: Tovo, Italy, 1895
Home Town: Kuridala, Cloncurry, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Miner
Died: Ryde, New South Wales, Australia, 6 May 1945, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Macquarie Park Cemetery & Crematorium, North Ryde, New South Wales
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World War 1 Service

24 Jan 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3358, No 4th Tunnelling Company - Headquarters No 1, Enlisted at Townsville, QLD
22 May 1916: Involvement Sapper, 3358, No 4th Tunnelling Company - Headquarters No 1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: ''
22 May 1916: Involvement Sapper, 3358, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: ''
22 May 1916: Embarked Sapper, 3358, No 4th Tunnelling Company - Headquarters No 1, HMAT Warilda, Sydney
22 May 1916: Embarked Sapper, 3358, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Sydney
30 Sep 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), Promoted to Sapper when taken on strength.
11 Nov 1918: Involvement Sapper, 3358
3 Jul 1919: Honoured Military Medal, London Gazette on 3 July 1919, page 8357, position 80. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 17 October 1919, page 1529, position 20
29 Jul 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 3358, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), Discharged at the 1st Military District

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Residential address at the time of enlistment was Friezland*, QLD.

*Friezland was originally named Gulatten, then Hampden, then Friezland, and finally Kuridala in October 1916. 

Son of Stepheno Quadrio and Mary Quadrio of Tovo, St Agaba, Port Sondrio, Italy.

Commenced return to Australia on 20 April 1919 aboard HT Boonah disembarking on 8 June 1919 at Melbourne the transhipped aboard HT Sardinia to Brisbane disembarking on 11 June 1919.

Medals: Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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