Dominic DE MARINO

Domenico Demarino is shown with the following information :-

Date of Birth	15 November 1873
Place of Birth	Salerno Sicily
Occupation	Musician
Age	19
Height	5 Ft 4in
Hair	D Brown
Eyes	Brown
Complexion	Sallow

Ships,&c.,Served in.	Rating	From	To	If Discharged, Whither and for what cause
Sans Pareil	Bandsman	1 Oct 92	10 Mar 95	Shore Malta
Hood	Bandsman	31 May 95	7 Sep 96	Shore Malta
Hawke	Bandsman	19 Sep 96	22 June 99	Shore Malta

His character is shown as VG throughout this period of service

These are the ships that he served on - all battleships :-

	HMS Sans Pareil
	HMS Hood
	HMS Hawke

Domonic appears in a census for the first time in the 1901 census where he is shown as a boarder staying with another musician Frank BOTTO as a boarder a P Botto is listed as a cornet player in the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra Dominic DE MARINO played french horn in Dan Godfreys Bournemouth Orchestra. If you look at the extract of a programme below you will see Dominic shown as "P. DEMARINO" in the horn section and his landlord in the early days F. Botto in the trumpet section.

Dominic's second appearance in the census is in the 1911 census Where Dominic is a "Boarder" with a "Widow" Rose Vine - who later in the same year he married.

Rose and Domonic used to live at 18 Robert Louis Stevenson Ave formerly Middle Road at Westbourne. The property was bombed during the Second World War. It was hit by one of three landmines that were dropped in Bournemouth that night - they came down attached to a parachute, which meant that you could not hear them coming. Bournemouth itself was never the target but being on the route to Coventry used to get any "left overs" on the way back. It was the same bomb that destroyed "Skerryvore" the former residence of Robert Louis Stevenson, after whom Middle Road was renamed.

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