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Name	Dermot Armstrong Casey
Born	27 August, 1897 South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	13 September, 1977 (aged 80) Mount Macedon, Victoria, Australia
Related Entries	[View as tree] Casey, Richard Gardiner (father) Casey, Richard Gavin Gardiner (brother) Casey, Ethel Marian (sister-in-law) Hill, Charles Lumley (uncle by marriage) Casey, Cornelius Gavin (grandfather) Harris, George (grandfather)
Education *	Eton College (England) (student, 1910-1913) Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (England) (student, 1913-1916)
Occupation or Descriptor *	defence forces personnel (British) (1916-1919) Overseas archaeologist (1919-1955) Overseas archaeologist (1930-1955) Victoria, Australia
Military Service *	World War I (British army officer)
Awards	Military Cross (recipient, 1918)
Key Organisations *	Anthropological Society of Victoria (founding member) Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (founding member) National Museum of Victoria (honorary ethnologist) Royal Society of Victoria (president, 1947)

* Dates are approximate