"I enlisted in the Carabinieri where I matured from boy to man"

Bruno Cossalter

Source: Courtesy of Bruno Cossalter

Born in 1929 in Pedavena, in the province of Belluno, Bruno Cossalter arrived in Australia from Trieste with the ship Toscana on the 6 of January 1956 after 45 days of navigation.


On 2 June he was awarded the Knighthood of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity.


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