Lives

A memorandum to the Secretary of the Department of Immigration from the Commonwealth Investigation Service reports the death in Melbourne of Hisakichi Kuroiwa, who, unusually, was exempted from repatriation to…

Letter by Queensland Police reporting the arrest of Albert Kaurila, initially to spend a night in the Ingham Watch House. NAA: BP242/1, Q21831 Albert Kaurila, as he was known, was…

Photograph of Alfred Erlanger. NAA: B78, 1948/ERLANGER A. ERLANGER Alfred – Nationality: German – Arrived Adelaide per Rangatici [sic] 19 November 1941. Alfred Erlanger was one of some 500 ‘Persian…

The Dutch vessel MV Cremer, which brought Giovanni Chiarabaglio to Australia from New Caledonia. https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?55905 Giovanni Chiarabaglio (CI25252) was born in Favria, Turin, Italy on 3 December 1893.[i] He was…

Photograph of the young ‘Bruno’ Casotti. NAA: PP302/1, WA16108, CASOTTI Giovanni Bruno [nominated Alfredina CASOTTI] Giovanni ‘Bruno’ Casotti was born on 20 October 1915 in the small, poor, marble quarrying…

Photograph of Father Valentin Antonieff. Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. Valentin Andreevich Antonieff was born in Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine, on 7 March 1878, the son of a Russian…

Image of Cosimo Andretta from his driver’s licence, courtesy his son Cosimo Andretta. Cosimo Andretta (CI25250) was born in Naples, Italy, on 18 May 1907.[i] He moved to New Caledonia…

Arturo Comelli working on Parliament House before the Second World War. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153000872/arturo-giobatta-comelli Arturo Giobatta ‘Arthur’ Comelli was born in the small town of Nimis near the city of Udine in…

Domenico Molino is at the far left of this army photo. Courtesy Patti Sbrissa. Domenico Alessandro Molino, born in 1913 in Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, was a tailor before he…

Shigetada Nishima (back row, third from right) is captured in a photograph taken during Sukarno’s visit to Makassar in 1945. By unknown photographer – https://www.jstor.org/stable/3351090, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78841294 Born in…