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Australian educator and teacher (1881–1962)

Adelaide Laetitia "Addie" Miethke, OBE (8 June 1881 – 4 February 1962), was a South Australian educator and teacher who was pivotal in the formation of the School of the Air using the existing Royal Flying Doctor Service radio network.^[1]

Parents

Rudolph Carl Alexander Miethke (14 November 1832 – 21 October 1931), sometimes written Carl R.

A. Miethke, born in Stargard, Prussia, now in Poland, migrated with his parents (Carl) Gustav Adolph Miethke and his wife Louisa, née Gaster, to South Australia on the San Francisco from Hamburg, arriving in June 1850, and settled at Blumberg (now Birdwood).

He had two siblings on the boat: Augusta Mathilde Amalie Miethke, and Carl Emil Miethke. He spent a few years on the Victorian goldfields, followed by extensive overseas travel, during which he served from 1861 to 1864 with Abraham Lincoln's 2nd California Infantry Regiment.^[2] On his return to Adela