GAWN.

Weekly News, 25th January 1917.

Trooper Thomas George Gawn, reported wounded on the 12th of December 1916, is the youngest son of Mrs Julia Gawn, Victoria Street, Auckland, and the late Mr Frank Gawn of South Dunedin. He and his brother Charles Gawn, enlisted at the outbreak of war and served in the original Samoan Expeditionary Force for 12 months. On return to New Zealand they again volunteered with the two other brothers. Thomas Gawn was the first to be wounded. These soldiers are the grandsons of the late Sergeant James Kennedy who was under arms for the extremely lengthy period of 44 years.

It would appear from recent records that this information is incorrect in that Charles was not a brother to Thomas but his nephew born in the same year to his sister Annie Frances Louden Gawn.