DOYLE, RALPH RAYMOND (1894-1955), film company manager, was born on 7 April 1894 at Leichhardt, Sydney, third son of English-born parents Frank Doyle, draper, and his wife Jane Grinsell, née Robinson. Educated at public schools, in May 1910 Ralph joined the Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney and was sent to Cooma in 1911. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 1 August 1916 and served on the Western Front with the 1st Light Trench Mortar Battery and the 2nd Battalion. Commissioned on 1 August 1918, he was promoted lieutenant in January 1919. His appointment terminated on 20 July in Sydney.

Returning to the bank (at Neutral Bay), Doyle resigned in March 1922 to establish his own practice as a public accountant. At St Philip's Anglican Church, Sydney, on 5 April that year he married Mary Isabel Body (d.1931); they were to have two sons and a daughter ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography