Percy Arthur Charles THIELE

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THIELE, Percy Arthur Charles

Service Number:	SX11721
Enlisted:	10 March 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Murray Bridge, South Australia, 28 August 1916
Home Town:	Nuriootpa, Barossa, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua, Middle East, 9 December 1942, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea B5 E 10
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, District of Nuriootpa Roll of Honour WW2, Eudunda War Memorial, Eudunda and District WW2 Honour Roll

World War 2 Service

10 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Private, SX11721, Adelaide, South Australia
10 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX11721
11 Mar 1941:	Involvement Private, SX11721, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
8 Dec 1942:	Involvement Private, SX11721, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion, Buna / Gona / Sanananda "The Battle of the Beachheads" - Papua

Correction

Website correction as I am unable to find how to do the correction on post one

https://gawler-barossa.smugmug.com/History/PACThiele/

Submitted 30 July 2021 by Glen Williams

Percy Thiele

https://gawler.smugmug.com/History/PACThiele/

Submitted 30 July 2021 by Glen Williams

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Alfred Arthur and Eva Annie Thiele.

HE DIED FOR HIS KING, COUNTRY AND ALL HIS LOVED ONES

Pte. Percy Thiele, Nuriootpa, was killed in action in New Guinea on Dec. 8, according to advice received by his mother, Mrs C. W. Heidrich, Rowlands Flat. Percy, whose brother Roy is also serving, was a fine type of young man. He enlisted about September, 1940, and served with the AIF in Syria.

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