Robert John Lodge

Robert John "Jack" Lodge was born in Beverley, Western Australia in 1894 to Sarah and Thomas Lodge,1 the youngest of their three children and their only son.

In 1939 (when his mother died) he was living in Capel.2

The South-Western News, Busselton, 25 October 1918:3 ``Mr. T.S. Lodge has received a private communication from England stating that his son, Bombardier `Jack' Lodge, is on his way to Australia. Bombardier Lodge has been on active service since the early stages of the war.''


  1. Index to the WA Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Beverley district birth, reg. no. 1789. 

  2. Family Notices. The West Australian 16 May 1939, p. 1. Retrieved November 16, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46390957 

  3. PERSONAL. (1918, October 25). The South-Western News (Busselton, WA), p. 3. Retrieved June 23, 2020, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148130944 

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