Kenneth Shave
Australian army officer
Lionel Kenneth Osborn Shave, (28 September 1916 – 30 April 2009) was an Australian soldier, businessman, benefactor and patron of the arts. He served with distinction during the Second World War at Tobruk and in Palestine, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was present at the surrender of the Japanese First Army in the Pacific in 1945 and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services in intelligence.
Shave's career encompassed whaling, mining and advertising. He had a lifelong interest in the theatre, becoming chairman of The Old Tote Theatre Company. He was a patron of the arts, a friend to many well-known Australian painters and councillor of The Arts Council of New South Wales.
Early life
Lionel Kenneth Osborn Shave was born on 28 September 1916, the eldest child and only son of Lionel Charles Horace Shave and Doris Minnie Helena (née Long) in Mentone, Victoria, Australia. Shave had four sisters, Valerie, Helen, Penelope and Diana, of whom Helen died in infancy. At the age of five years Shave suffered osteomyelitis of the bone of his right arm. Rather than the usual procedure of amputation, Shave's surgeon, Frank Kingsley Norris, employing revolutionary surgical techniques, removed sections of the bones of the lower arm leaving Shave's right arm shorter and weaker, but with the hand functional.
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