Picture No | 10952016 |
Date | 1918 |
Description | Cecil Healy - Australian swimmer |
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Cecil Patrick Healy (28 November 1881 – 29 August 1918) Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1900s and 1910s, who won silver in the 100 m freestyle at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He also won gold in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. He was killed in the First World War at the Somme during an attack on a German trench.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 7 September 1918 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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