Talk:Charlie Zinnick

Name
At his birth his name was Carl Frederick Zinnack. He later (consistently) used the different, but similar, given name of "Charles", and the different, but similar, family name of "Zinnick". The 1967 Electoral Roll (for "Gellibrand") has "15408 Zinnick, Charles Frederick, 24 Adelaide st., W.11, carpenter, M" (it also has "15407 Zinnick, Alice Lillian, 24 Adelaide st., W.11, home duties"). Lindsay658 (talk) 19:39, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Military service
In 1922, a brief biographical article on Zinnick spoke of his having completed "five years' war service" (C. Zinnick: Vice-Captain Yarraville Football Club, The (Footscray) Independent, (Saturday, 29 July 1922) p.4). To the best of my efforts (as at 26 October 2021) I have been unable to find anything at all that would assist in locating any details of this "war service". However, there is a most extraordinary catalogue entry in the records of the National Archives of Australia (Citation: NAA: B73, M40154; Item ID: 32761615) which, also, identifies the person to whom the item(s) in question is(are) connected as "STOKER, Carl Frederick Zinnack - Service Number - 18/8". It would seem that the "M" in M40154 very strongly indicates that the item in question has a connexion with either an application for a War pension, or for some other matter relating to a war-caused injury. Given the routine administrative practice of NAA, it would seem that the item is catalogued with "Stoker", rather than "Zinnack" as the family name of the individual concerned. I have been unable to find any record of any service in the Australian armed forces in World War I; and further, there is no reference to "Charlie Zinnick" in the World War One Nominal Roll, as "Stoker", "Zinnack", or as "Zinnick". It all seems rather mysterious. Lindsay658 (talk) 19:39, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Update — perhaps he was, indeed, a "stoker"? (Old player as Administrator, The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 1 September 1934), p.7). Lindsay658 (talk) 22:22, 25 October 2021 (UTC)