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Parents: - Sydney Robert Edwin Loveridge and Ethel Rose Morton married 25th April 1904 in Albury, New South Wales, Australia.

"OBITUARY" The Corowa Free Press, 18th September 1945

Mr. Brendan J. Loveridge The Loveridge family received the sad news on Friday, last of the death of their son Joe, who was a private in the A.I.F. and had been a prisoner of war for the past three and a half years. His death was due to illness and occurred on the 7th August, 1945. The news has occasioned widespread sympathy for his family, who have been called upon to suffer their first bereavement. Joe suffered the same fate as many thousands of other prisoners, who, through the inhuman natures of the Japanese swine, were slowly starved to death. He was 28 years of age, and a very popular young man of Corowa, where he was born and had his schooling, first at the Convent, and finally at the High- School. For a time he was employed at Messrs. J. D. Fraser & Sons' office and afterwards was on one of his father's properties. Having been in the militia before the war he was selected when war broke out, to train near Shepparton. He was engaged in this work for a few months only, as he could not bear to be training men to go and fight and not go himself. So he enlisted in the A.I.F. and was taken prisoner in Ambon. He has paid the supreme sacrifice, and given his life for his country; no one can do more. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. R. E. Loverldge, of Evelyn Street, and the following brothers and sisters: William, Maisie, Jane, Ross, Frederick, Sydney, Stella, Alice, Kathleen, Patrick and Anthony. Two brothers — Sydney, a private in the A.I.F., and Frederick, a lieutenant in the A.I.F., were in the war, and Patrick was in the army at Fishermen's Bend, Victoria.