Douglas (Dougie) Byng (1893 – 1987)

Title: Douglas (Dougie) Byng (1893 – 1987)
Date: around 1912
Publisher: Unknown
Contributor: James Gardiner
Format: JPEG
Type: Black and white photograph
Creator: Unknown
Spatial Coverage: London & Brighton
Language: English
Rights Holder: James Gardiner
Rights: James Gardiner; Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Extent: 1912
Identifier: Douglas (Dougie) Byng (1893 – 1987)

Description: Douglas (Dougie) Byng (1893 – 1987) was a born performer. This early photograph shows the teenage Dougie ready to forge his professional career that would span over 70 years and see him perform in revues across the West End for the social elite including the Bright Young Things in Café de Paris in the 1920s, to right across the Fare East in WWII entertaining the troops.

Subject: Cabaret; Theatre; Revue; Performance; Cross-dressing

A teenage Douglas Byng in early performance piece c. 1912

Douglas (Dougie) Byng (1893 – 1987)

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