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From: David Collyer <>
Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] FISCALINI
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:38:35 +1000
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>Dear friends,
>
> > Mr. M. FISCALINI left Natimuk on Wednesday night to take charge of the
>Queen's Head Hotel, Ballarat East.

Then there is also the ongoing controversy about one Mr. FISCALINI who was
supposedly awarded a V.C. at Beersheba in WW1. It was taken off him, as
were all decorations at that time when it was discovered that the members
of the 8th Light Horse - of which my grandfather was one - had been found
guilty of throwing a number of local people down the village well and
dropping a large grind stone on top of them, thus sealing their fate.
Regards
David in Ballarat

> >
>And I think henceforth the FISCALINI name was well known in Ballarat. A
>Monsignor, a Redemptorist priest and a Sister of Mercy among the
>descendants. Sister Sheila FISCALINI is currently stationed at Mortlake. A
>great musician and a great lady. Father Fisc the Redemptorist had a great
>sense of humour, and having said Mass at the Convent one morning, the sister
>in charge of bringing his breakfast noticed that the bottoms of his trouser
>legs were tattered. She told him to bring them along next time he came and
>she'd get one of the nuns to mend them for him. He reached for the button at
>his waist and said, "Here you are Sister. You can take them now." Needless
>to say she made a hasty retreat amid his howls of laughter.
>
>(This has been another of the millions of stories lurking in this befuddled
>brain just waiting to be told! Where does she hear them all!!)
>
>Cheers
>Beryl
>Frivolous List Admin
>
>
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