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This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Giuseppe Torcasio.

Above Right - Giuseppe Torcasio in uniform with the heavy artillery regiment insignia on his peaked visor cap, WWII North Africa.  


Giuseppe Torcasio was in the Italian heavy artillery regiment using two (Obice da 149/19 model 37 heavy howitzer's), A World War II veteran who saw action in Tobruk and El Alamein North Africa. Giuseppe Torcasio was born in Lamezia Terme Italy on 21/10/1919 and left us on the 18/10/2012 Melbourne Australia three days short of his 93rd birthday. We will remember him forever.


   Papà you are forever in our thoughts sadly missed and eternally loved,
   I know you are Safe In God's keeping and Sleeping with angels.
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  Papà until we meet again, Your son John..


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              The tears in my eyes I can wipe away, but the ache in my heart will always stay.
October 18, 2022
October 18, 2022
One decade today October 18th, 2012, October 18th, 2022 it doesn't get any easier love you forever papà
October 21, 2019
October 21, 2019
Happy Birthday Mio papà you would have been 100 years old today 21-10-2019

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Giuseppe Torcasio: World War II

June 2, 2021
World War II                                                              

Giuseppe Torcasio fought in North Africa for three years during World War II (known as the Campaign of North Africa)The Italians were in joint forces with the German army. Giuseppe was in the Italian heavy artillery a battery of 40 men with 2 x Obice da 149/19 model 37 heavy howitzers, He saw action at Tobruk, El’ Alamein, and the surrounding areas, Giuseppe was very fortunate to have survived the war from all of the allied aerial bombardment and machine-gun fire.
By 1943 the war had ended in North Africa and shortly after that Italy surrendered. The last two years of the war he spent in the mountains north of Italy It was unsafe for him to try and get back to the south of Italy where he lived because if he was caught by the Germans he would have been shot. He had several close calls in those two years spent in north Italy as Giuseppe worked on farms the Germans would visit these farms and speak to the owners asking if they had seen any Italian soldiers in the area, The Italians were terrified of Germans and did not tell them anything, and then there were also the spies and traitors.

On one occasion in the middle of the night, Giuseppe was woken by the farm owners barking dogs he got up and saw two German soldiers walking up the hill towards the shed where he was sleeping he ran back behind the shed and into the forest where he stayed till daybreak,
This happened again the very next night, But this time the Germans had burnt down the shed If caught Giuseppe would have been killed!

These were ” white paper” years in Europe, Giuseppe had just spent three long years fighting in the sands of the desert of North Africa he didn’t plan on being killed back in his own country, This farm owner was shot dead not long after this incident happened for being a spy and supporting fascism.                  

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