Lloyd Mervyn Hodge was born in Adelaide in 1884. Lloyd and Alice Hodge and their children lived at Tawah near Childers, Biloela, Dalby and Buderim. Lloyd Hodge served at Gallipoli with the 3rd Field Ambulance, A.I.F. He was a grazier and farmer before and after the Second World War and for several years worked as the manager of the Callide Cotton Research Station, Biloela. Alice Hodge, who had been raised in England, was involved with the Country Women's Association Lloyd Hodge died in April 1964 [Information taken from 2015 digital, online-accessible, memoir of Alice and Lloyd Hodge, The romance of Alice and Lloyd, an affectionate memoir, by Margaret Grace].