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.

• Arawa, a memoir, Ts., pp.1-288, annotated, maps, bound; in two “Books”. “Awara" seems to mean "All's well" in the Wedau language, that being the Anglican mission language. Book 1, pp.1-189, includes an interesting account of Dr Gill’s time with the Anglican mission in Papua, including descriptions of Papuan customs and houses, and also a retrospective account of the mission during the Japanese occupation of PNG, giving details of the fate Dr Gill’s missionary colleagues, many of whom were killed. Book 2, pp.190-288, is of little interest to Pacific researchers but has been included on the microfilm for the sake of completion.
• Three short stories by Gaspar King (pseud. of Cecil Gill) set in Papua: “Zealotes”, Ts., 18pp., annotated; “A Doctor’s Dilemma in the Outback”, Ts., 16pp.; “A Nightmare Voyage”, Ts., 3pp.
• Correspondence between Cecil Gill and Nancy Lutton, Jun 1976-Sep 1980.
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