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His Own Man

The Cecil Burgess Story

von Julian Burgess

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Cecil Burgess led a remarkable life. He was born in
Launceston, Tasmania, in 1914 into a devout Catholic family.
His father was the city health inspector and superintendent of
the Launceston Abattoir. Cecil rejected Catholicism and
became a vegetarian. He was good at sport, an excellent
scholar and accomplished public speaker. During World War II
he was an RAAF navigator and served in Bomber Command in
England where he completed 35 bombing missions and
continued his accountancy studies. He was a cheese maker,
orchardist, business owner and company secretary. He lived
and worked in Launceston, on Thursday Island, in Cairns and
Southport in Queensland. When he finally retired he returned
to Launceston where he died in 2009 at the age of 94. He was
His Own Man and this is his story.
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Julian Burgess
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Julian Burgess is the author of ten non-fiction books including Holyman's of Bass Strait, Shipping and Aviation Pioneers of Australia; Home of Peace, The Eskleigh Story; The Tamar Yacht Club, a history of sailing in Launceston from 1837; A Woman Of Charity, the biography of Launceston philanthropist Mrs W. D. Booth; Duck Reach And Launceston’s Electric Light; William Gow’s Anzac Diary; The Outcome Of Enterprise, Launceston’s Waverley Woollen Mills; and Cruel Wind (with Robert Matthews) on the 1998 Sydney To Hobart Yacht Race Disaster. Julian is a former Associate Editor of the Launceston Examiner newspaper, where he worked for 45 years. He edited and wrote many of The Examiner’s annual historical supplements between 2006 and 2014 and has written hundreds of articles on Launceston’s history and contributed to a number of local historical publications including The Kaleidoscope of Launceston, The Fabric of Launceston and the Launceston General Hospital: Celebrating 150 Years of Caring.

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