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Thomas Edward Healy was an Australian journalist, author, war correspondent and documentary filmmaker. He was born at Coorparoo in the then Colony of Queensland on 28th August 1900 and died in Melbourne, Victoria on 3rd February 1977.

His published work includes And Far From Home (Michael Joseph, London, 1936), Tourist Under Fire (Henry Holt and Company Inc., New York, 1945) and a monograph on the life of Pope Pius XII. He made three feature documentaries on Africa in the late 1940s and early 1950s: Holiday of a Lifetime, Safari Solo and Africa Without Make-Up.

Background and Early Life

TEH was the second child and eldest son of Thomas Alphonsus Healy (1875 - 1951) and Catherine Mary Malone (1878 - 1916). All his grandparents emigrated from Ireland in the 1860s, with the Healys - James (1837 - 1906) and Ellen nee o'Brien (1843 - 1905) - settling at Drayton, outside Toowoomba, Queensland and the Malones - Edward (???? - ????) and Catherine nee McCullen (???? - ????) settling at Swan Creek, near Warwick, Queensland, where Edward built and ran the White Swan hotel.