CHIARELLI, Fraustine
| Service Number: | 731 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, Australia, 1 September 1891 |
| Home Town: | Cessnock, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Ryde, New South Wales, Australia, 3 March 1961, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-37. 93. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 731, 34th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Sergeant, 731, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Sergeant, 731, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 8 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 731, 34th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD. Due to wounding, GSW to thigh |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
62 years ago today, on the 7th March 1961, Sergeant Faustino J Chiarelli, 34th Battalion (Reg No-731), Aberdare miner from Harris Street, Cessnock, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 69. CATHOLIC 2-37. 93. Died at Ryde, N.S.W. Not married.
Born at Raymond Terrace, New South Wales on the 1st September 1891 to Faustino and Adella Chiarelli, Faustino enlisted on the 10th January 1916 at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 27.11.1916 (lobar pneumonia), 18.8.1917 (diphtheria).
Wounded in action - 9.5.1918 (GSW left or right thigh, severe).
Faustino was invalided home on the 20th February 1919, being discharged medically unfit (GSW right thigh) on the 8th April 1919.
Mr. Chiarelli name has been inscribed on the Cessnock War Memorial.
I have placed poppies at the Chiarelli gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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