Help Translating Back of Photo

[porta1412]

Hello all,

Can someone please help me with translating the back of this photo.

Thanks so much
Joe

[PippoM]

Ospedale di Bolzano (?) 16 1947
Carissima mamma, ti mando questa cartolina
guardatela bene e conoscetela bene
ciao mamma
ci vediamo presto

Bolzano Hospital (I can't see the month of the date)
Dear Mum, I'm sending you this postcard
look at it (or her) well, and get to know it (or her) well - maybe there was a person in the photo?
Bye Mum
See you soon

[porta1412]

Ospedale di Bolzano (?) 16 1947
Carissima mamma, ti mando questa cartolina
guardatela bene e conoscetela bene
ciao mamma
ci vediamo presto

Bolzano Hospital (I can't see the month of the date)
Dear Mum, I'm sending you this postcard
look at it (or her) well, and get to know it (or her) well - maybe there was a person in the photo?
Bye Mum
See you soon

Hi
Thanks so much for the translation, much appreciated
Here is the front of the photo. Its my uncle who was in WW2 but to me the photo just seemed off. 1947 was after the war had ended and he has a military hat on but his pants dont look right.
He was also from Sicily so not sure why he was so far up North.
Thanks again.

[mmogno]

He appears to be wearing hospital pyjamas. Perhaps he was admitted to the Bonvicini Sanatorium on his return from captivity. It is perhaps the snow that signals to the mother to look and recognise.
You could search for your uncle's matriculation register to find out if he was still in the military in 1947.

[porta1412]

He appears to be wearing hospital pyjamas. Perhaps he was admitted to the Bonvicini Sanatorium on his return from captivity. It is perhaps the snow that signals to the mother to look and recognise.
You could search for your uncle's matriculation register to find out if he was still in the military in 1947.

Hi thank you for the response, yes maybe he is referring to the snow.
Sorry to be a bother but how do I go about searching for the matriculation register?
Thanks so much

[mmogno]

I'd like to know his name, where he was born and where this uncle lived.

[porta1412]

I'd like to know his name, where he was born and where this uncle lived.

Hi
His name was Sebastiano Morello
Born Feb 10 1924 in Raccuja, Sicily
Lived in Raccuja then San Marco D’Alunzio and maybe Capo D’Orlando and then in 1950 immigrated to Australia, specifically Kingston SE.
He passed March 3 1954 in Adelaide

[AngelaGrace56]

I'd like to know his name, where he was born and where this uncle lived.

Hi
His name was Sebastiano Morello
Born Feb 10 1924 in Raccuja, Sicily
Lived in Raccuja then San Marco D’Alunzio and maybe Capo D’Orlando and then in 1950 immigrated to Australia, specifically Kingston SE.
He passed March 3 1954 in Adelaide

Hi Joe

Just posting this in case you don’t haven’t seen it. It looks like Sebastiano arrived in Australia on 31 May 1949.

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchN ... 38&T=P&S=2


Edit to Add in case you don't have:

Sebastiano Morello – Died in hospital 3 March 1954, 30 yo: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/arti ... %20Morello

Angela

[porta1412]

I'd like to know his name, where he was born and where this uncle lived.

Hi
His name was Sebastiano Morello
Born Feb 10 1924 in Raccuja, Sicily
Lived in Raccuja then San Marco D’Alunzio and maybe Capo D’Orlando and then in 1950 immigrated to Australia, specifically Kingston SE.
He passed March 3 1954 in Adelaide

Hi Joe

Just posting this in case you don’t haven’t seen it. It looks like Sebastiano arrived in Australia on 31 May 1949.

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchN ... 38&T=P&S=2


Edit to Add in case you don't have:

Sebastiano Morello – Died in hospital 3 March 1954, 30 yo: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/arti ... %20Morello

Angela

Hi Angela
Thank you so much for this information. Absolutely amazing. I will now go down the rabbit hole with that website
Thanks again

[AngelaGrace56]

I’m glad you found the two links interesting. I had found another newspaper clipping on Trove website and thought I’d saved the link to it, but I haven’t, and for some reason the site seems to be down at the moment. It was basically a publicised acknowledgement thanking friends etc who had been supportive leading up to Sebastiano’s passing. The site seems to be down at the moment so I’ll take a look later and see if I can find it.

The second website is the Australian National Archives. You should be able to locate other family members immigration, naturalisation records etc there.

Re the Foglio di Matricolare, you will need to write to the State Archives in Messina for this. I think you have the address already. (as-me@cultura.gov.it)

As I understand it, there will only be a Foglio Matricolare pertaining to Sebastiano if he was accepted and not exempted for any reason. The few times I have written to the State Archives for military records I’ve generally asked for the Liste di Leva (Conscription List) and any supporting military documents or something along those lines. (I guess you could use a similiar letter you wrote when you requested Salvatore L's military paper work.)

Best to you with this.

Angela

[porta1412]

I'd like to know his name, where he was born and where this uncle lived.

I sent an email and in record time received the record back the same day, absolutely amazing. Please see attached the folio which says he still was in the army in 1947. I can also see the hospital name in the writing but cant understand the rest.

Can someone please help with the translation.
Thanks so much

[porta1412]

I’m glad you found the two links interesting. I had found another newspaper clipping on Trove website and thought I’d saved the link to it, but I haven’t, and for some reason the site seems to be down at the moment. It was basically a publicised acknowledgement thanking friends etc who had been supportive leading up to Sebastiano’s passing. The site seems to be down at the moment so I’ll take a look later and see if I can find it.

The second website is the Australian National Archives. You should be able to locate other family members immigration, naturalisation records etc there.

Re the Foglio di Matricolare, you will need to write to the State Archives in Messina for this. I think you have the address already. (as-me@cultura.gov.it)

As I understand it, there will only be a Foglio Matricolare pertaining to Sebastiano if he was accepted and not exempted for any reason. The few times I have written to the State Archives for military records I’ve generally asked for the Liste di Leva (Conscription List) and any supporting military documents or something along those lines. (I guess you could use a similiar letter you wrote when you requested Salvatore L's military paper work.)

Best to you with this.

Angela

Hi Angela
Thanks so much for the help. Here is the document they sent back to me about his military record. Should I be asking for other military records as well as the folio or is this all that there would be?

I’m really interested in his campaigns and what division he was in etc

Thanks
Joe

[mmogno]

Sebastiano Morello did not participate in the Second World War.

On 12 June 1943, he was recalled and declared reviewable, leaving him on unlimited temporary leave pending the call to arms for those born in 1925.

Note that on 8 September 1943, the armistice between Italy and the Allies was signed.

He was recalled again, after the war ended, on 16 August 1946.
He was released again on 26 August 1946.

He was recalled on 19 September 1946 and sent to the recruit training centre in Montorio Veronese.
After finishing his training on 31 October, he was assigned to the 4th Artieri Company in Udine.

He then alternated between admissions to the military hospitals in Verona and Bolzano, convalescent leave, and returns to his unit in Udine until he was discharged without limitation on 19 September 1947.

The photo must have been taken on 16 January 1947, as he was in the Bolzano hospital at that time.

[porta1412]

Sebastiano Morello did not participate in the Second World War.

On 12 June 1943, he was recalled and declared reviewable, leaving him on unlimited temporary leave pending the call to arms for those born in 1925.

Note that on 8 September 1943, the armistice between Italy and the Allies was signed.

He was recalled again, after the war ended, on 16 August 1946.
He was released again on 26 August 1946.

He was recalled on 19 September 1946 and sent to the recruit training centre in Montorio Veronese.
After finishing his training on 31 October, he was assigned to the 4th Artieri Company in Udine.

He then alternated between admissions to the military hospitals in Verona and Bolzano, convalescent leave, and returns to his unit in Udine until he was discharged without limitation on 19 September 1947.

The photo must have been taken on 16 January 1947, as he was in the Bolzano hospital at that time.

Hi
Thankyou so so much for the translation. I wondered why he seemed to be so sick all the time. He did pass young in 1954 from Leukemia so maybe that was part of it all.
Here are some more photos i found of him in the military. One i presume is his Unit, one is him in his uniform and the other he is recieved something from an officer.
Its all so very interesting.
Thanks to everyone for the help, much appreciated
Joe

[porta1412]

Also does anyone know of a site or facebook group etc that i could post his unit photo up on, maybe someone will notice a family member in the photo.