Columbia Aged Care

Giuseppe Tizzone, a resident of Columbia Aged Care’s Acacia Centre in Marrickville, was recently part of a remarkable reunion and was featured in the Sun-Herald.

Mr Tizzone, now 91 years old, was in a truck of captured prisoners on 22 January 1941 at Tobruk, Libya. He was one of 25,000 Italian soldiers who surrendered during the capture of Tobruk. They were captured by the Australian 6th Division, among them Australian Army officer George Hayman.

In an unbelievable set of circumstances, Mr Tizzone’s daughter-in-law heard Bruce Hayman, son of Major Hayman, speaking on the radio about his father’s involvement in World War II. She contacted the radio station and a meeting was arranged.

The reunion took place at the Acacia Centre on Friday 7 January with the story appearing in The Sun-Herald on Sunday, 9 January 2011.

Mr Tizzone said, “I never thought I would see this day, not in a million years. I was very happy to meet him.”

The full newspaper article can be read online HERE.