His first post war teaching post was Port Lincoln, where he wrote his first book, a geography textbook due to frustration with the available textbooks. He started teaching at Robertstown South Australia, before war service.
He transferred to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in July 1942, serving out the remainder of the war as a corporal posted to Air Defence Headquarters, Higgins Field, at the tip of the Cape York Peninsula. Thiele enlisted in the Australian Army in December 1940, and was posted to the 18th Light Horse (Machine Gun) as a private. He became principal of Wattle Park Teachers College in 1965, principal of Murray Park CAE in 1973, and director of the Wattle Park Teachers Centre until his retirement in 1980. He later taught in high schools and colleges. He was educated at several country schools including the Eudunda Higher Primary School, and Kapunda High School before studying at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1941. The young Colin only spoke German until he went to school at Julia Creek. Thiele was born in Eudunda in South Australia to a Barossa German family. Colin Thiele and Rhonnie Thiele with Max Fatchen standing behind at the State Library's "Colin Thiele Day" in the Mortlock Library on 14 September 2000 Biography
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