'Court of Inquiry' for injury

Domenico Cenci was born on the 9th April 1898 in Piacenza, Italy. At the time of his arrest in London on the 10th June 1940, he operated a café at 10 Old Compton Road.  His address on his Australian document was 12 St George House, Coptic Street, London. His next of kin was Luisa Ida (née Jacoppi) whom he married in 1929.

He was one of 28 UK Italian internees to be transferred to Loveday Camp 14D on the 8th March 1944.  On the 17th October 1944, while at Loveday Camp he sustained an injury for which a Court of Inquiry was held.  The ruling was that he had been accidentally hurt, no blame was attached to anybody and the 1/- per day was to be paid while he was incapacitated. Of interest is that Celeste Guana in September 1944, had sustained a cut to his finger while working in the Loveday Camp kitchen with a Court of Inquiry also held which was the procedure for injuries sustained in the camps.

Domenico departed Loveday Camp on the 9th January 1945 and returned to Tatura Camp on the 10th January 1945.

On the 19th April 1945, Domenico arrived in Liverpool, England onboard the Dominion Monarch. His name of the ship’s register was recorded in error as Dorando Cenci, his address as Rutland, Ellingham Road, Hemel Hempstead and his occupation as caterer.

Domenico continued his internment until his release on the 8th June 1945. He died in 1969.

Tatura, Australia. 13 February 1943. Group of Italian internees from overseas now interned at Tatura Internment Camp. Back row, left to right: D. Borzoni; E. Previdi; R. Pini; R. Lombardelli; D. Schiavi; G. Roscelli; A. Pini. Front row: S. Pini; D. Cenci; L. Bertorelli; A. Saccomani.

(AWM Image 030188/12 Photographer Colin Halmarick)