Career
Chiarello was also one of the last two surviving Italian and Alpine Front veterans of the First World War, along with fellow 109-year-old Delfino Borroni. Called up in 1918, he enlisted in the Castrovillari. He spent three months in training and then served as an infantryman at Cosenza.
First sent to the front line in Trentino, he was later sent by sea from the port of Taranto to Albania.
There he contracted malaria, but recovered in a field hospital. Afterwards he was sent to Montenegro where he served for two more years in the Italian army.
He lived in Cirò Marina until his death in June 2008.