Ivan Lefroy Loveday correspondence
Collection
First World War diary, letters and postcards, relating to Ivan Lefroy Loveday a station hand from Queensland, who served with the 47th & 49th Infantry Battalions, from 1916-1919.
Ivan Lefroy Loveday (1898-1973) worked as a jackaroo in western Queensland before the First World War. Brothers Arthur and Eric also enlisted in the AIF, Eric died from wounds in 1916. Ivan enlisted on 31 August 1916 and embarked for England aboard the 'Demosthenes' as part of the 47th Infantry Battalion 8th Reinforcements. After a period in Codford Training Camp, Loveday was sent to France on 16 October 1917. On 5 April 1918 he received gunshot wounds to his left eye and ear and returned to England for treatment, then Australia aboard the 'Orca'. Upon arriving in Brisbane on 7 April 1919 he went into isolation camp at Lytton and was discharged 12 May 1919. After the war, Loveday worked on Marita Station, located around 80 miles north west of Longreach. He married Ethel Mary Philo on 29 June 1926 in Bowen, and in 1931 they moved to Brisbane. Loveday joined the Forestry Department, he and Ethel raised four children - Charles William (Bill), John, Philip and Penelope.
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