Aurélio Augusto César
He died on January 30, 1969 at the Clínica do Bom Jesus, in Ponta Delgada, at the age of 76, Aurélio Augusto César, distinguished military, nurse, politician, sportsman and journalist from Micaelense.
He was born on November 24, 1892 in the parish of São Sebastião, Ponta Delgada. As Military, he settled on January 8, 1909, as a volunteer, in the regimen of infantry nº26, in Ponta Delgada. After a long period of leave, he returned to service effectiveness on May 1, 1912, passing to the 1st Group of Health Companies on April 1, 1913. He attended in 1914 the 1st Degree of Nursing Course in School of Hospital of Lisbon (Estrela). He was assigned to the province of Angola, having embarked on 27 May 1915 and arrived in Moçâmedes, Angola, on 15 April of the same year. He returned to Portugal on December 6 of that same year, landing in Lisbon. His participation in the First World War (1914-1918) was described and evaluated by the eyewitness of Colonel Rodrigo Álvares Pereira and Major Eduardo Reis Rebelo. For the services rendered to the Portuguese Army and the Patria received several decorations: War Cross 3rd Class of November 29, 1922; Cruz de Guerra 1st Class of August 18, 1923; Medal Class Exemplary Behavior of May 22, 1915; Medal of Victory of October 30, 1919; Medal of Praise of the Society of the Portuguese Red Cross of November 22, 1919. He ends his military service, due to physical incapacity, on December 2, 1919, with the post of 1º Cabo.
After returning to Ponta Delgada, after serving in Angola, he became a member of the Antero de Quental Socialist Center, jointly with, among others, his brother Manuel Augusto César. In 1917, he opened the nursing home “Aeselio César’s Dressing House”, recognizing the lack of human and material resources in the provision of health care, emphasizing voluntary nursing support in the fight against pneumonic influenza “known as in 1918. As a life member, since October 1919, and active cooperator of the Ponta Delgada delegation of the Portuguese Red Cross Society, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the Medal of Merit and the Medal of Thanks. In 1954 he received the professional nurse’s license, by the National Union of Nursing Professionals.
At the socio-political level, he became Acting Secretary of the Parish Council of Santo António on November 19, 1933, a position he held until January 5, 1941, and Acting President of the Administrative Commission of the parish of Santo António on January 2 in 1942. He also served as chief machinist in the Micaelense Tobacco Factory and in the Tobacco Star Factory and Professor at the Viçoso May School of Design, which later became the Ponta Industrial and Commercial School Thin. He also worked as a reporter and journalist in the newspaper Correio dos Açores, where he began in March 1922 and served for 32 years. Finally, as a sportsman, besides being a goalkeeper for the “Union of Trade Employees”, he was the creator of the football club “O Esperança”.
His funeral was held on January 31 after the body mass present at 11.30 in the chapel of the clinic of Bom Jesus, from where he went to the San Joaquim cemetery.
