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ZIESLER, Charlton Conrad
(Service number 25/1632)

Aliases	Also known as Conrad Charlton ZIESLER.
First Rank	Second Lieutenant	Last Rank

Birth

Date	18/05/1888	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Elizabeth Street, Timaru
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs L. ZIESLER (mother), Elizabeth Street, Timaru
Religion	Church of England
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Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	2nd Reinforcements, 3rd Battalion, G Company
Date	1 April 1916
Transport	Tahiti
Embarked From	Wellington, N.Z.	Destination	Suez, Egypt

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Death

Date	*1976	Age
Place of Death
Cause	Victoria, Australia
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Biographical Notes

Charlton Conrad Ziesler was the son of John William Smith and Lucy Emma (née Wright) Ziesler, of Timaru. He was educated at Waimataitai School, from where he went out to work at the age of 14½. "After the war he became a famous Australian broadcaster hwho pioneered a number of early programmes in the 1930s. He is the father of the late Tony Charlton and Mathew Charlton. He used to broadcast the ANZAC Day parade on radio or television for a number of years in Australia for the ABC." [AWMM Cenotaph Database] All this was in the name of Conrad CHARLTON. Conrad married Hazel Alice Bernice Fuller in 1924 in Victoria, Australia. Hazel was born in New Zealand and was living in Wellington in 1919. Hazel died in 1974 and Conrad Charlton in 1976 in Victoria, Australia. Conrad's older brother, Charles Frederick William Ziesler, born in 1877 at Timaru, went to Australia, married in Western Australia in 1909, and enlisted with the Australian forces. Charles died of wounds in 1918 London and is buried at Codford, England. Another brother, Erling Ziesler, also served in World War I.

Sources

Auckalnd War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [25 May 2018]; School Admission record (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [25 May 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of internal Affairs) [28 May 2018]; Victoria, Australia death indexes (ancestry.com.au) [30 May 2018]

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