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Name	Leon Maxwell Gellert
Born	17 May, 1892 Walkerville, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died	22 August, 1977 (aged 85) Toorak Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Cultural Heritage	Hungarian Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Occupation or Descriptor *	schoolteacher (1913-1918) South Australia, Australia poet (1914-1919) South Australia, Australia soldier (1914-1916) Federal, Australia schoolteacher (1918-1922) New South Wales, Australia columnist (1922-1969) New South Wales, Australia journalist (1922-1969) New South Wales, Australia magazine/journal editor (1922-1942) New South Wales, Australia

* Dates are approximate