May 23, 2021
CH Percival - The Last Tram, c.1925, etching Cecil Humphrey Percival (1891) was an Australian painter, cartoonist and illustrator. Percival was born at Bulli on the south coast of New South Wales. Percival was a high school teacher before he enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force to fight in World War I. In 1918, he was transfereed to the Education Service and then to War Records Section in London. He contributed cartoons to a paper for troops and even had a cartoon published in London Punch. In August 1924, he became the principal cartoonist for the Bulletin, taking over from Norman Lindsay. He also contrubuted to the Australian Woman's Mirror. During the forties, Percival illustrated children’s books
