Early Life
Arthur Percy Sullivan was born on 27 November 1896, at Crystal Brook, South Australia, the son of Arthur Monks Sullivan, a storekeeper, and his wife Eliza, (née Dobbs). He was educated at Crystal Brook Public School and Gladstone High School. After completing his education in 1913, he was offered an apprenticeship in the same year at the National Bank of Australasia in Gladstone. Shortly after he was transferred to Broken Hill, New South Wales, before returning to Maitland in his home state of South Australia.
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