Name Malcolm Uren | Role Journalist | |
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Books A Thousand Men at War: The Story of the 2/16th Battalion, A.I.F. | ||
Malcolm John Leggoe Uren, OBE (7 January 1900 – 22 July 1973) was an Australian journalist who edited the Western Mail in Western Australia.
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Early life
Uren was born on 7 January 1900 in West Hindmarsh, an inner-city suburb in Adelaide, South Australia to Malcolm Francis Uren and Millicent Jane Leggoe. The Uren family then moved to Perth, the capital of Western Australia. Uren married Lenora Emily Olive Stradwick (Klenk) on 25 August 1923. They had a son, Malcolm Charles Uren (Bon) (1924–2002) and two grandchildren, Leslie (1948) and Malcolm John Spencer (1951–2004).
Career
Uren became a cadet journalist with the Perth-based Western Mail in 1920, and by 1941 was its editor.
Later life
In 1965 Uren was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He died on 22 July 1973.