Ernest Otto ZIBELL

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ZIBELL, Ernest Otto

Service Number:	S74829
Enlisted:	15 April 1942
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	Volunteer Defence Corps (SA)
Born:	Peters Hill, South Australia, 18 July 1899
Home Town:	Barmera, Berri and Barmera, South Australia
Schooling:	Cowell Primary School, South Australia
Occupation:	Teacher, Storeman, Upholsterer, Fruit inspector
Died:	Pulmonary embolus, Adelaide, South Australia, 29 November 1976, aged 77 years
Cemetery:	Barmera Cemetery, South Australia Buried with wife Dorothy in Old Section H, Barmera Cemetery, Plot H30S, McKenzie Road, Barmera, South Australia
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World War 2 Service

15 Apr 1942:	Involvement Corporal, S74829
15 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Barmera, SA
15 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, S74829
11 Oct 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, S74829, Volunteer Defence Corps (SA)

Ernst Otto Zibell

Ernst enlisted at age 42 when the Government put out the call for the Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) to be expanded to include men aged between 18 and 60 to enlist to be part of the country's home defence. He enlisted at Barmera, a small country town close by the Murray River in South Australia, a husband and father of six children at the time and took his position seriously, regularly training with others in the 8th Battalion VDC. He was discharged in October1945 after the 8th Battalion VDC was disbanded.

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