Gilbert Mant

[2] After some years as a jackaroo he returned to Sydney and wrote as a freelance journalist in the early 1920s, often on literary topics.

[6] He had been covering the 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.

[8] Mant joined the Second AIF in July 1940 and served in Malaya until September 1941, when he was discharged and became a war correspondent for Reuters.

[1] 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.

He retired in 1969 and moved to Port Macquarie, where he worked part-time for The Land, mostly covering agricultural shows in northern New South Wales.