Rev. Dr Cecil Gill (a younger brother of Archdeacon Stephen Romney Gill who served in the Anglican mission in Papua from 1908 until 1952) was brought up and educated in England, served in the RAF during World War I, and was a POW in Austria and Italy. He completed medical training after the War at Edinburgh University and joined the Anglican mission in Papua as a medical missionary in 1926. The family left Papua in 1933 due to the ill health of Dr Gill's wife, Nonie. In England Dr Gill worked for a year or two as an Anglican priest - he had been ordained in Papua. However, having decided to convert to Catholicism, he reverted to a medical career, eventually finding a partnership in a medical practice in Cardiff. Notes from Nancy Lutton's commentary.
From the description of Awara, memoir of a medical missionary in Papua, 1926-1933, and elsewhere, together with three short stories, and Dr Gill's correspondence with Nancy Lutton, 1970-1980 [microform]. 1970-1980. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 271861431
