Eric Lethieullier LOVEDAY

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LOVEDAY, Eric Lethieullier

Service Number:	1583
Enlisted:	7 December 1914
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	49th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Gympie, Queensland, Australia, 14 August 1896
Home Town:	Gympie, Queensland
Schooling:	Gympie State School, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Bank Clerk
Died:	Died of wounds, France, 4 September 1916, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension Plot II, Row A, Grave No. 27.
Memorials:	Aramac War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gympie & Widgee War Memorial Gates

World War 1 Service

7 Dec 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1583, 9th Infantry Battalion
13 Feb 1915:	Involvement Private, 1583, 9th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Choon embarkation_ship_number: A49 public_note: ''
13 Feb 1915:	Embarked Private, 1583, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Choon, Brisbane
14 May 1915:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 9th Infantry Battalion
25 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Corporal, 49th Infantry Battalion
13 Apr 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 49th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Eric Loveday was the son of Charles Edward and Maud Celia Loveday, of Gympie, Queensland. Charles was a businessman in Gympie, a member of the Gympie Stock Exchange.

Eric served at Gallipoli with the 9th Battalion from early May 1915. He was promoted to Corporal shortly after. He was evacuated sick with debility during late August 1915 but rejoined the 9th Battalion there in late November and stayed until the evacuation.

He was transferred to the 49th Battalion during the reorganisation of the AIF in early 1916. Eric was severely wounded during the last fighting at Mouquet Farm on 3 September 1916. He died of his wounds the next day.

His older brother Captain Arthur Cecil Loveday 15th Battalion AIF returned to Australia in late 1919. Another younger brother, 3239 Private Ivan Lefroy Loveday also served with the 49th Battalion and was returned to Australia wounded in 1918.

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