Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

27/02/1916

Date of Discharge

13/05/1918

Place of Enlistment

Goulburn NSW

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

03/07/1897

Place of Birth

Queanbeyan NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Uriarra ACT

Occupation

Labourer

Next of Kin

Agnes Lodge (mother), Seaview, National Park NSW

Service Number

2446

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

55 Battalion AIF

Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Roll of Honor Queanbeyan Public School, Isabella Street, Queanbeyan NSW

Lodge worked as a mail contractor in the Uriarra district before enlisting. He served with the 55th Battalion in France from February 1917 but was shot in the shoulder when his unit attacked Doignies on the Bapaume-Cambrai road on 2 April 1917. Due to his injury he returned to Australia in November 1917 for discharge. Lodge moved to Sydney where he died on 1 July 1972.

Description - height 5 feet 8½ inches, weight 135 pounds, chest 30-33 inches, dark complexion, hazel eyes, light brown hair, Church of England, scar over appendix, top jaw required dental attention.

Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
Our Queanbeyan 'Boys' No.2, Howard & Shearsby, Yass (postcard)
Queanbeyan Age - 27 July 1916, 4 January 1918
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Image courtesy of Catherine Genge