Father: Gustave Albert LüTKENS (*2 Jun 1862 +2 Apr 1903)
Mother: Julia Annie ARNOLD (*Mar 1858 +14 Nov 1924)

Hugh Edgar LUTKENS (*19 Jun 1892 +12 Jan 1946)

Hugh Lutkens with his twin daughters

• BIRTH: 19 Jun 1892, Melmoth, Natal, South Africa [209] [210] [211]
• DEATH: 12 Jan 1946, Greenside, Johannesburg, South Africa [212] [213]
• BURIAL: 1946, Westpark Cemetery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• EVENT: Occupation: soft goods salesman
• EVENT: Salesman
  Occupation: 1917
• EVENT: Residence: 16 Nov 1923, 6 Raleigh Street, Port Elizabeth, South Africa [215]

Wife 1 : Esther Jane LEPPER

• MARRIAGE: 5 May 1919, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England [NF16] [55279]

Children

1. +Joan Mary LUTKENS (*6 Apr 1923 +17 Jul 1994)
2. +Pamelia Margaret LUTKENS (*30 Dec 1926 +1 May 2010)
3. +Patricia Nancy LUTKENS (Private)

                                                                   ________________________
                            _Julius George LüTKENS ______________|
                           |                                      |________________________
 _Gustave Albert LüTKENS _|
|                          |                                       ________________________
|                          |_Maria Henriette Magdalena OLDENBURG _|
|                                                                 |________________________
|
|--Hugh Edgar LUTKENS 
|
|                                                                  _John ARNOLD ___________
|                           _Thomas ARNOLD _______________________|
|                          |                                      |_Elizabeth Jane OXFORD _
|_Julia Annie ARNOLD ______|
                           |                                       _Andrew TINLEN _________+
                           |_Jane TINLEN _________________________|
                                                                  |_Mary BRISTOL __________

Complete list of names in tree

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[214] Information found amongst belongings of daughter Joan reported by Joan's husband Ernst Schultz

6 January 1913 registered as a reservist (S.A. Defence Act 1912)

Working for Randles Bros. & Hudson , Durban, South Africa
Living at 292 Sydenham Rd, Durban

12 June 1913 voluntarily entered peace training in Durban
August 1914 promoted to Corporal
5 October 1914 started duty in German South West Africa operations
December 1914 promoted to Sergeant
April 1915 promoted to Staff-Sergeant
14 August 1915 active duty in German South West Africa ended

Received 1914-1915 Star for services rendered in the German South West campaign.

Sailed from Natal to Plymouth, England aged 24 aboard the Gaika which arrived in London on 26 June 1917. Presumably to join the war.

Dale Schultz has an envelope from a letter sent by Hugh Lutkens to his future wife franked 23 February 1918. The envelope reads:
On Active Service
Miss Jean Lepper
6 Cookham Rd
Maidenhead
England

It was also stamped by the censor.

Esther Jane Lepper was known as 'Jen' hence the 'Jean'


28 October 1920 living at 6 Releigh Rd, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Transferred to different units in 1920 and 1921

RSA archives
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DESCRIPTION EX PARTE APPLICATION. HUGH EDGAR LUTKENS AND ESTER JANE LUTKENS
(BORN LEPPER).
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Letter from his daughter Pat, February 2000
During the First World War he first of all served in the South West Campaign and later was sent to England for officer training. This is how he met my mother. Funnily enough, Lepper is also a German family name from the Hamburg area. They married after the aristice and Mum came out to South Africa on a troop ship, settling in Durban.

PMB archives:
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REMARKS SURVIVING SPOUSE ESTHER JANE LUTKENS
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[NF16] Witnesses :
Thomas George Lepper
Arther James Gilroy

[209] [S99] From 'papers' quoted in Letter from Ernst Schultz to Dale Schultz dated 6 March 1996

[210] [S17] Estate of Hugh Edgar Lutkens

[211] [S564] Natal Archives Repository estate file Reference. MSCE 17/85 (1903)

[212] [S99] From 'papers' quoted in Letter from Ernst Schultz to Dale Schultz dated 6 March 1996

[213] [S17] Estate of Hugh Edgar Lutkens

[215] [S24] Natal Archives Repository estate file Reference. MSCE 9861/1924

[55279] [S562] Marriage certificate