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Gilbert Mant
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'''Gilbert Palmer Mant''' (20 July 1902 – 16 February 1997) was an Australian journalist and author.
==Life and career==
Gilbert Mant was born in [[Sydney]].<ref name=OC></ref> He wrote as a freelance journalist in the early 1920s, often on literary topics.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> He worked for the Sydney ''[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|Daily Telegraph]]'' from 1925 to 1930 and subsequently worked for [[Reuters]] in Australia, Britain and Canada.<ref name=OC/>
Mant married Marion Carroll in Melbourne in 1933.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> The couple went straight to New Zealand, where Mant was covering the tour of the [[English cricket team in New Zealand in 1932–33|English cricket team]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> He had been covering the [[English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33|Australian leg of the tour]], and intended to write a book about it, but Reuters refused him permission to do so when he told them he would be critical of the [[bodyline]] tactics of the English captain [[Douglas Jardine]].<ref name=WCA/> He also accompanied the next English team on its [[English cricket team in Australia in 1936–37|tour of Australia in 1936-37]] as the Reuters correspondent.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
He joined the [[Second Australian Imperial Force|Second AIF]] in July 1940 and served in [[British Malaya|Malaya]] until September 1941, when he was discharged and became a [[war correspondent]] for Reuters.<ref></ref><ref name=OC/> He returned to Malaya for Reuters, escaping from Singapore in a British destroyer when [[Battle of Singapore|Singapore fell]] to Japanese forces. He wrote the books ''Grim Glory'' (1942) and ''You'll Be Sorry'' (1944) about his experiences.<ref name=OC/> His wife, who had accompanied him on many of his journalistic travels, replaced him as acting news editor of Reuters in Sydney when he enlisted. At that stage they had a daughter and a son.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
Beginning in October 1945, his column "The Way I See It" appeared in the Sydney ''[[The Sun (Sydney)|Sun]]'' and its successor ''[[The Sun-Herald]]'' for many years. Covering current topics and prominent figures, and illustrated with drawings, it at first occupied a full page of the Sunday edition, then later two columns of a page.<ref name=WCA>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1998, p. 1436.</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
==Books==
*''Holy Terror and Other Stories and Verse'' (stories, verse and sketches, 1923)
*''Glamour Brat'' (novel, 1941)
*''Grim Glory'' (war reporting, 1942)
*''You'll Be Sorry'' (war reporting, 1944)
*''Gone Tomorrow'' (novel, 1946)
*''Buttercup'' (for children, 1969)
*''The Big Show'' (history of the [[Sydney Royal Easter Show]], 1972)
*''A Town Called Port: A Port Macquarie-Hastings Valley Walkabout'' (history, 1986, with John Moyes)
*''The Singapore Surrender'' (''Grim Glory'' and ''You'll Be Sorry'', published as one book, 1992)
*''A Cuckoo on the [[Bodyline]] Nest'' (cricket history, 1992)
*''Soldier Boy: The Letters of Gunner W. J. Duffell, 1915-18'' (edited, 1992)
*''The 20th Century Off the Record'' (memoir, 1994)
*''Massacre at Parit Sulong'' (war history, 1995)
==References==
==External links==
* [https://ift.tt/2YeFW0D Resources for Gilbert Mant] at [[National Library of Australia]]
[[Category:1902 births]]
[[Category:1997 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century Australian journalists]]
[[Category:20th-century Australian novelists]]
[[Category:Journalists from Sydney]]
[[Category:Australian war correspondents]]
[[Category:Australian military personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:Australian columnists]]
==Life and career==
Gilbert Mant was born in [[Sydney]].<ref name=OC></ref> He wrote as a freelance journalist in the early 1920s, often on literary topics.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> He worked for the Sydney ''[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|Daily Telegraph]]'' from 1925 to 1930 and subsequently worked for [[Reuters]] in Australia, Britain and Canada.<ref name=OC/>
Mant married Marion Carroll in Melbourne in 1933.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> The couple went straight to New Zealand, where Mant was covering the tour of the [[English cricket team in New Zealand in 1932–33|English cricket team]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> He had been covering the [[English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33|Australian leg of the tour]], and intended to write a book about it, but Reuters refused him permission to do so when he told them he would be critical of the [[bodyline]] tactics of the English captain [[Douglas Jardine]].<ref name=WCA/> He also accompanied the next English team on its [[English cricket team in Australia in 1936–37|tour of Australia in 1936-37]] as the Reuters correspondent.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
He joined the [[Second Australian Imperial Force|Second AIF]] in July 1940 and served in [[British Malaya|Malaya]] until September 1941, when he was discharged and became a [[war correspondent]] for Reuters.<ref></ref><ref name=OC/> He returned to Malaya for Reuters, escaping from Singapore in a British destroyer when [[Battle of Singapore|Singapore fell]] to Japanese forces. He wrote the books ''Grim Glory'' (1942) and ''You'll Be Sorry'' (1944) about his experiences.<ref name=OC/> His wife, who had accompanied him on many of his journalistic travels, replaced him as acting news editor of Reuters in Sydney when he enlisted. At that stage they had a daughter and a son.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
Beginning in October 1945, his column "The Way I See It" appeared in the Sydney ''[[The Sun (Sydney)|Sun]]'' and its successor ''[[The Sun-Herald]]'' for many years. Covering current topics and prominent figures, and illustrated with drawings, it at first occupied a full page of the Sunday edition, then later two columns of a page.<ref name=WCA>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1998, p. 1436.</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
==Books==
*''Holy Terror and Other Stories and Verse'' (stories, verse and sketches, 1923)
*''Glamour Brat'' (novel, 1941)
*''Grim Glory'' (war reporting, 1942)
*''You'll Be Sorry'' (war reporting, 1944)
*''Gone Tomorrow'' (novel, 1946)
*''Buttercup'' (for children, 1969)
*''The Big Show'' (history of the [[Sydney Royal Easter Show]], 1972)
*''A Town Called Port: A Port Macquarie-Hastings Valley Walkabout'' (history, 1986, with John Moyes)
*''The Singapore Surrender'' (''Grim Glory'' and ''You'll Be Sorry'', published as one book, 1992)
*''A Cuckoo on the [[Bodyline]] Nest'' (cricket history, 1992)
*''Soldier Boy: The Letters of Gunner W. J. Duffell, 1915-18'' (edited, 1992)
*''The 20th Century Off the Record'' (memoir, 1994)
*''Massacre at Parit Sulong'' (war history, 1995)
==References==
==External links==
* [https://ift.tt/2YeFW0D Resources for Gilbert Mant] at [[National Library of Australia]]
[[Category:1902 births]]
[[Category:1997 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century Australian journalists]]
[[Category:20th-century Australian novelists]]
[[Category:Journalists from Sydney]]
[[Category:Australian war correspondents]]
[[Category:Australian military personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:Australian columnists]]
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