LOHSE, Alfred George
| Service Number: | 793 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 August 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia, 4 November 1892 |
| Home Town: | Tenterfield, Tenterfield Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Sunnyside Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Fettler |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 6 August 1915, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Glen Innes & District Soldiers Memorial, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Tenterfield & District Fallen Soldiers Roll of Honor Infantry |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 793, 4th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 793, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 793, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 15 Jun 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4th Infantry Battalion, At Gallipoli | |
| 6 Aug 1915: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 793, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 793 awm_unit: 4th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1915-08-06 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of William F. Lohse and Anna E. Lohse nee Strong of NSW.
Brother of Ernest Frederick Lohse who returned to Australia on 20 July 1919 having served with the NSW 1st Re-inforcements; Mary E. Kavanagh nee Lohse, Emma C. Lohse;
John Henry Lohse who was killed in action on 4 November 1916 while serving with the 3rd Battalion and has no known grave. His name appears on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial;
William Joseph Lohse who returned to Australia on 25 November 1917 having served with the 3rd Battalion. William died on 2 July 1956 and was buried in the Rookwood Catholic Section Portion M2, Row 12, Grave 1450
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Alfred George LOHSE (Service Number 793) was born on 4th November 1892 at Tenterfield. His aunt, Mrs E A Lohse, also of Tenterfield, was his foster-mother. He first worked for the Permanent Way Branch of the NSW Government Railways as a labourer in the Northern Division from 27th October 1912 but resigned the following July. He was employed again in November 1913 as a labourer and then a fettler. He worked between Cryon and Walgett, and later between Kootingal and Glen Innes. It was from this latter location that he was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 29th August 1914.
Lohse enlisted at Sydney the same day and being unmarried gave is sister living in Glen Innes as his next of kin. He was allotted to the 4th Australian Infantry Battalion. He embarked on HMAT ‘Euripides’ in Sydney on 20th October 1914. He was in Gallipoli by July. He contracted Influenza and was evacuated to Mudros (on the Greek island of Lemnos), and then to the 26th Casualty Clearing Station when he developed enteric fever. He was discharged from hospital on 29th July and returned to Gallipoli in time for the attack at Lone Pine in early August.
He was killed in that action between 6th and 9th August . He has no known grave and is remembered on the Lone Pine Memorial.
Alfred Lohse was one of a family of four brothers who served in the AIF. John Henry Lohse died in France. He had no known grave and is remembered on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. William Joseph Lohse survived the war but lost a leg below the knee. Ernest Frederick Lohse seems to have survived the war uninjured.
When the time came to distribute the war medals and mementoes, Alfred Lohse’s brothers, and sister who was his next of kin, declined their entitlements, and let the medals go to his aunt, and foster-mother.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.