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Life Summary

Name	Gilbert Palmer Mant
Born	20 July, 1902 Darling Point, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	16 February, 1997 (aged 94) Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	motor-neurone disease
Cultural Heritage	New Zealander Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Mant, John Francis (brother) Brennan, Christopher John (acquaintance) Lindsay, Norman Alfred (acquaintance) Slessor, Kenneth Adolf (acquaintance)
Education *	Sydney Grammar School (student, 1914-1918)
Occupation or Descriptor *	jackaroo/jillaroo (1918-1925) New South Wales, Australia rabbiter (1918-1925) New South Wales, Australia journalist (1925-1930) New South Wales, Australia journalist (1930-1938) Overseas journalist (1938-1940) New South Wales, Australia soldier (1940-1941) Federal, Australia war correspondent (1941-1942) Federal, Australia censor (1942-1945) South Australia, Australia columnist (1945-1956) New South Wales, Australia journalist (1945-1956) New South Wales, Australia sports writer (1945-1992) New South Wales, Australia publicist (1956-1969) New South Wales, Australia autobiographer/memoirist (1992-1994) New South Wales, Australia
Military Service *	World War II (soldier) Fall of Singapore, 1942 (war correspondent)
Workplaces *	Daily Telegraph (Sydney) newspaper (journalist, 1925-1930) Australian Newspapers Cable Service (journalist, 1930-1931) Reuters Ltd (news editor, 1939-1942) Sun (Sydney) newspaper (journalist, 1945-1953) Sun-Herald (newspaper) (Sydney) (journalist, 1953-1958) Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales (public relations officer, 1956-1969)

* Dates are approximate