Born in Maidenhead

Rizzieri Ruggiero Alphonso Ferrucci was born in Maidenhead, England and held dual nationality until before the war when according to the Home Office, London, a valid declaration of alienage was made and he forfeited his British nationality. He was arrested in London, England on the 12th June 1940 and listed his mother Marthe Ferrucci who was living in France as his next of kin.

Rizzieri was released from internment to Melbourne in April 1945. In 1948 he married Marie Claire Chapman in Upway, Victoria. When he applied for his Certificate of Naturalisation, Rizzieri and his wife lived at Cambridge Street, Penhurst, NSW and he was head waiter at Romano’s Castlereagh Street, Sydney.

The couple returned to Victoria and to Elsternwich in 1949. Rizzieri was a 'barman' and according to the newspapers, in July 1955 Melbourne’s Menzies’ chief cocktail mixer ‘Frank Ferrucci’ had invented a cocktail for the Olympics using seven ingredients to spell out OLYMPIC: orange juice, lime juice, yolk of egg, Maraschino, Pernod, ice and Chartreuse. 

By1963 Rizzieri and Marie Claire were living in Darlinghurst, Sydney and Rizzieri went by the name of was on the Richard Roger Frank Ferrucci.

Richard Roger Ferrucci died in Sydney on the 26th August 1998.

Rizzieri Ruggiero Alphonso Ferrucci 1940 and 1949