BORINELLI, Giovanni
| Service Number: | 496 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 September 1915, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | Mining Corps |
| Born: | Teglio, Italy, 30 April 1886 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Marble Mason |
| Died: | Concorde Repat Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, 28 February 1953, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 20 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, 496, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 20 Feb 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 496, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Feb 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 496, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney | |
| 16 Nov 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, 496 |
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"...495 Sapper Giovanni Borinelli, No 2 Company, 2 Section, of NSW. Sapper Borinelli served with the 2nd Tunnelling Company. Born in Teglio, Italy, he was a naturalised British Citizen, and a 29 year old marble mason prior to enlistment, he embarked on 20 February 1916 from Sydney aboard HMAT Ulysses. He returned to Australia on 24 August 1918, suffering from asthma triggered off by a gas shell explosion in November 1916." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
"BORINELLI John.- February 28, 1953 at Repatriation General Hospltal Concord husband of the late Margery Constance Borinelli late of Therry Street Drummoyne, loved father of Margery (Mrs C Greive), Frederick, Mary (Mrs S Ireland), and Peter, and father in law of Clem, Ethel, and Stan R.I.P." - from the Sydney Morning Herald 02 Mar 1953 (nla.gov.au)
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