Private Samuel Lovett and his niece, Aircraftwoman Alice Lovett, followed in their family tradition when they enlisted for the Second World War.
Samuel served with the 2/5th Battalion, fighting the Vichy French in Syria in 1941, then against the Japanese in New Guinea from 1942–1945. He, like his brothers, sought a soldier settlement land grant, but was denied.
Alice enlisted in the WAAAF in 1941. She trained at Rosebud and was posted to the No. 2 Air Navigation Training School at Nhill. When offered a promotion and posting to Queensland, Alice declined and joined her friends Connie Alberts and Mary King at the Maribyrnong Munitions Factory.
The Lovett family has 23 members who have served in the Australian Defence Force.
Private Samuel Lovett and Aircraftwoman Alice Lovett 1942
Fitzroy, Victoria
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REPRODUCED COIURTESY OF THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL AND UNCLE JOHNNY LOVETT
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Wally and Connie Alberts
Wally served with the 4th Anti-Tank Regiment, The Royal Australian Artillery during the Second World War. Connie worked in the Maribyrnong munitions factory during the war manufacturing bullets.
Mickey Lovett
Private Eugene ‘Mickey’ Lovett, a Gunditjmara man from Heywood, Victoria, served in the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment in Korea from 1952 to 1953.
Aunty Dot Peters' wreath
The gum leaf wreath artwork by Nina Kelabora is inspired by the late Aunty Dot Peters AM, who laid a gum leaf wreath at the Shrine each year.
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