Steven Ainsworth Lonergan (29 March 1899 – June 1969) was an Australian public servant, who spent most of his career in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.
Lonergan was born in Hobart in Tasmania in March 1899,[1] and was educated at State High School in Launceston.
[2] He joined the Australian armed forces during World War I and saw action the Battle of Gallipoli aged only 16 and later in France, where he was badly injured.
[3] After the war he studied at the Repatriation Trades School in Launceston from 1920 to 1922,[2] before joining the civil service in the Territory of New Guinea in 1923.
[2] During World War II he was part of the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit, achieving the rank of lieutenant-colonel and was mentioned in dispatches.