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Name: John August Thiele
Service Number: 5091
Date of Birth: Not listed in the S.A. Births Index of Registrations 1842 - 1906. Based upon his enlistment papers, John August Thiele was born at Eudunda/Bower in November 1895.
Date of Enlistment: 27 September 1917 at Eudunda.
Age at Enlistment: 21 years 10 months.
Next of Kin: Father - Frederick August Thiele
Occupation: Farm labourer.
Religion: Church of Christ.
Rank; Private 32nd Battalion.
John completed basic training at Mitcham Camp on 23 October 1917 and departed for England on SS Ulysses from Melbourne on 22 December. He was hospitalised at Suez with Cellulitis and defective vision in the right eye on 16 January 1918, prior to being admitted to the Australian Camp at Suez, with the 32nd Battalion on 26 February. John disembarked at Southampton, England on 24 March and entered Codford for additional training two days' later. Contracting pneumonia led to being admitted to the 3rd New Zealand General Hospital at Codford and later at Weymouth, with his parents receiving notification on 11 April.
John served the remainder of the war with the 32nd Battalion at the battles of Amiens and St.Quentin Canal in France, and Polygon Wood in Belgium. John returned to Australia per Argyllshire on 28 January 1919. He was discharged as medically unfit on 13 February.
John August Thiele died on 25 December 1930. He is buried in an unmarked grave in Kapunda Cemetery, plot R25.
Source: www.NAA/B2455/ThieleJA/Barcode 8099342; www.unsw.aif.adfa.edu.au/297567.
DEATH NOTICE: " Mr. John August Thiele, one of the pioneers of the Loxton district, died on December 25 in the Loxton Hospital, at the age of 74. He was born at Ambleside and in 1904 engaged in farming at Loxton, where he was one of the first to prove its wheat growing possibilities. His wife died last year..." The Advertiser, Monday, 29 December 1930. Source: www.trove.com.au.