Faustino Chiarelli

Enlistment Date

10/01/1916

Age At Enlistment

Rank On Enlistment

Sergeant

Regimental No.

731

Battalion

34th Battalion, C Company

Fate

Returned

Fate Date

04/01/1919

Occupation

Miner

Place of Birth

Newcastle, NSW

Religion

Roman Catholic

Marital Status

Single

Embarkation Details

Embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on 2 May 1916

Faustino Chiarelli’s father, also named Faustino, arrived in Sydney from Italy in 1880 to work on the water supply scheme. He moved to the Hunter region and eventually became a miner. Faustino was also a miner and he appeared in the Cessnock football team register and team lists in 1915. Sergeant Chiarelli received a severe gunshot wound to the thigh in France on 11 May 1918 and departed England for his return to Australia on 4 January 1919. He died in Sandgate, NSW, in 1961, aged 69.