Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
Hahn L G Pte 2435 Louis Gilbert served as Gilbert Turner 22 Inf Bn 18 17 Tinsmith Single R C
Address: Father's address: Kensington, Henry St, 19
28 Ormond St, Kensington by 26 Jan 1920
Next of Kin: Burden, Mrs, aunt, 9 Thistlethwaite St, South Melbourne
Enlisted: 10 Jul 1915
Embarked: RMS Osterley 29 Sep 1915
Date of Death: 05/08/1916
(Served as TURNER). Son of Albert Frederick and the late Mary Annie Hahn. Born at South Melbourne.
VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL
Relatives on Active Service:
William Harold Hahn, enlisted as 2911 Robert William Williams, brother, RTA
Frank George Hahn, 2338, enlisted South Melbourne, brother, RTA
Hahn was another underage volunteer, born in 1898 as Louis Gilbert Hahn, but enlisted as Gilbert Turner. He claimed to be 18½, but would have been a year younger. A letter from his father on his service record states that his son had left home and worked around all over the place, and had got a woman who was not a relation, Mrs Burden, to help him enlist.
All three brothers enlisted with an alias.
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ROLL OF HONOUR
Mr. A. F. Hahn, Henry street, Kensington, has been notified that his youngest son, Private Louis G. Hahn, previously reported wounded and missing, is officially reported killed in action in France on 5th August.
ROLL OF HONOUR. (1917, August 30). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 2 Edition: Morning. Retrieved May 23, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74603584
PRIVATE D. G. HAHN
Rifle men will regret to hear that Mr A. F. Hahn, of the Essendon Rifle Club, has now been informed that his son, Private L. G. Hahn, who was posted as missing since August, 1916, was killed in action. He celebrated his eighteenth birthday in the trenches, went through the Pozieres fighting which added, to the laurels of Australia, only to meet his death at Mouquet Farm with many other gallant Australians.
PRIVATE D. G. HAHN. (1917, August 29). Winner (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1917), p. 8. Retrieved September 15, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154545306
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Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiries Bureau Correspondence.
Turner Pte G 2435 22nd AIF
C Coy, II Pltn
W & M Aug 5th 1916
I saw Turner in the German front line at about 9.30 pm on the night of the charge. he informed me that he thought he had a rib broken. Later on I saw his body, he therefore must have died of his wound in the meantime. Turner was wounded during a British attack at about 3 pm. I cannot say if he was buried but I think it probable that his body was not removed from the field. The ground was held by us. I had known Turner for about eighteen months.
Eye witness: Did not see the man wounded.
Informant - Cpl William Liston, 1923
22nd AIF, C Coy, Clerk
Tooting Grove Military Hospital.
Home Address: Lincoln Crescent, Essendon, Melbourne.
10.4.17
Livingstone
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1061030--1-.pdf
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NOTICE A RULE to administer the Estate (with the Will annexed) of Louis Gilbert Hahn (otherwise Gilbert Turner), late of A.I.F., abroad. Soldier, formerly of Thistlethwaite Street, South Melbourne, Tinsmith, deceased, who died on the 5th August, 1916, has been granted to me, and Creditors Next of Kin and all others having claims against the Estate are required to send in particulars of their claims to the Curator of the Estates of Deceased Persons, New Zealand Chambers, 483 Collins Street, Melbourne, on or before the 19th June, 1918, or they may be excluded from the distribution of the Estate when the assets are being distributed.
WALTER B. HOUSE,
Curator of the Estates of Deceased Persons.
Melbourne 1st June, 1918.
Advertising. (1918, June 8). Record (Emerald Hill, Vic. : 1881 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved April 12, 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74229572
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Pte Louis Hahn's name on the 22 Inf Battalion's memorial at
Villers-Bretonneux. Courtesy of Carole Fitzgerald, 2010.
War Service Commemorated
Essendon & Flemington Rifle Club
In Memoriam
HAHN. — In loving memory of our dear youngest
son and brother, Private Louis Gilbert (Lou) Hahn,
aged 18 years, killed in action at Pozieres on 5th
August, 1916, brother of Fred and Harold (both on
active service).
Just a boy when he enlisted,
In his teens when he was killed;
They gave him a man's work to do
A duty which he nobly fulfilled.
— Inserted by his loving father, stepmother
and sisters, Henry-street, Kensington; and brother,
Albert, South Melbourne.
Family Notices. (1918, August 5). The Age
(Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 1.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155132784
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