Other name: Leonard Arthur
Place of birth: July-Sep 1906
Year of birth: St Giles (Bloomsbury), London, England
Occupation: Journalist/Artist
Date of arrival: December 1936
Date of death: 13th October 1937
Comments: Registered birth name was Cecil Leonard Larlham. His father was sentenced to twelve months hard labour for receiving stolen Gainsborough paintings in July 1924, and died in January 1925. His mother committed suicide a few weeks later in a pond in Epping Forest. Married in New York in 1928, a short lived marriage to a Canadian.
Member of No 1 Company, 14th IB and BB, 15th IB. Source SC/IBA/5/1/5/1-3 has him killed alongside Harry Fry at Fuentes on 13 October 1937.
He is also probably the 'Tony Lachlan' mentioned by Walter Greenhalgh as the interpreter for George Nathan on Staff in BB. (R. Baxell). He is also possibly the 'English Public school boy, L---' that Spender refers to in The God that Failed (see p. 248) as having resignedly informed him in Spain that, ‘The rest of my life is to walk every morning up here until one day I am killed’.
Not to be confused with Cecil Arthur Thomas Larlham born 1908, died 1993, who was a cousin.
Source: IBA Box 21 File A RGASPI 545/6/161/56-57.
London Daily Chronicle - 17 February 1925 p3.
