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Name	Sydney Edward Cambrian Ancher
Born	25 February, 1904 Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	8 December, 1979 (aged 75) Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Cultural Heritage	New Zealander Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Hinder, Margel Ina (customer) Hinder, Henry Francis (customer) Dupain, Maxwell Spencer (collaborator)
Occupation or Descriptor *	architect (1929-1979) New South Wales, Australia army officer (1940-1945) Federal, Australia

* Dates are approximate