Cecil, Lawrence

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Contains a program related to a performance by Captain Lawrence Henry Cecil M.C. Cecil was born at Parkes, NSW in 1888 and moved to Sydney at a young age before travelling to England in 1911 and joined Sir Frank Bensons Shakespere Company at Stratford on Avon. At the out break of the First World War he enlisted in the British Army being commissioned with the 60th Rifles of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps and awarded the Military Cross for action at Fremicourt on 24 March 1918. Cecil returned to Australia after the war and returned to the stage. During the Second World War, in September 1940, Cecil left Australia for the Middle East as a war correspondent in charge of an Australian Broadcasting Commission mobile broadcasting field unit. [Incorporating information from the website of the Australian War Memorial, 2018.] Link to catalogue record.

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