"Charles" Carlo Luigi ALESSANDRINI

Born 15 December 1908 in Tenna, Trento Province, Italty ^[338]
Son of Luigi ALESSANDRINI and Maria OWS ^{[30: item 1328390] [15]}
Departed Genoa, Italy on the steamship Citta di Genova and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 17 December 1925 ^[338]
He travelled to Western Australia as a minor, aged 17, in the care of Beniamino PASSAMANI ^{[30: item 1328390]}
Contractor in Coorow 1931-1937 ^[50]
     In 1931, while living at Coorow he applied for naturalisation under the Commonwealth Nationality Act 1929-25 ^{[39: 7-Feb-1931]}
     He made his application for naturalisation through Moora solicitor Valdemar O. FABRICIUS ^{[39: 7-Feb-1931]}
Married Doris Gwen MACFARLANE in Perth in 1937 ^[66]
In the 1940s worked as a Truck Driver and lived at 13 Coode Street and then 40 Murray Street in the Perth suburb of Bayswater ^[50]
Received a compound fracture of the skull and a fractured right thigh after the truck he was driving overturned near Goomalling ^[39]
     He swerved to miss a car while driving an empty diesal truck from Goomalling or Dowerin on Thursday evening 31 May 1951 ^[39]
     Upon swerving the truck ran off the road and struck a tree, leaving him pinned under the canopy of the truck ^[39]
     He was freed by a police constable from Goomalling and taken to the North Hospital and then to the Royal Perth Hospital ^[39]
     In Perth he was operated on and the following day his condition was reported to be "quite satisfactory" ^{[39: 2-Jun-1951]}
A truck he was driving collided with the railway engine of a goods train at a railway crossing at Kauring on 12 November 1952 ^[39]
     The impact forced the truck, which was empty, about 20 feet through a fence and into a paddock ^[39]
     He was taken by ambulance to the York Hospital where he was admitted for treatment ^{[39: 12-Nov-1952]}
During the 1950s he was working as a Timber Worker and moved to 10 Wilson Street in the Perth suburb of Bassendean ^[50]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Embleton ^[2]
Died 30 April 1968; buried at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia (Roman Catholic, PC, 476) ^[2]
Also known as Charles ANDRI ^{[30: item 1328390]}

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