

During World War I, she was boarded at Loreto Girls School in Normanhurst, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. They again moved to Bowral, New South Wales after her father’s death in 1907. Travers' family relocated to Allora from Maryborough in 1905. Her mother Margaret Agnes Morehead was an Australian and was the sister of Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Premier of Queensland from 1888 to 1890.

He died at the age of 43 when Lyndon was only 7. He failed to succeed as a bank manager and was demoted to the position of bank clerk due to his excessive alcoholism. Her father, Travers Robert Goff, was born in Deptford, southeast London, England and hailed from Irish ancestry.

She was fondly called Lyndon during her childhood days. Travers was born as Helen Lyndon Goff on August 9, 1899, in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia.
