1. Leon Gellert was born in Walkerville, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
12 Facts About Leon Gellert
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Leon Gellert was subjected to bullying by his father to which he reacted by learning self-defence at the YMCA.
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Leon Gellert enlisted with the Australian Imperial Forces 10th Battalion within weeks of the outbreak of the Great War and sailed for Cairo on 22 October 1914.
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Leon Gellert landed at Ari Burnu Beach, Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, was wounded and repatriated as medically unfit in June 1916.
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Leon Gellert attempted to re-enlist but was found out.
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Leon Gellert took to journalism, moving to Sydney, where he taught English at Cleveland Street Intermediate High School until 1922 when he joined the staff at Smith's Weekly.
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Leon Gellert was appointed editor of Ure Smith's Home magazine and co-editor of the quarterly Art in Australia, which he took over on Stevens' death in 1922.
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John Fairfax took over Ure Smith Publications in 1934, Ure Smith and Gellert retaining their positions until 1938 when Ure Smith retired.
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Leon Gellert continued editing Home until 1942 when it ceased publication.
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Leon Gellert then became literary editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, writing a column 'Something Personal' in the Saturday issues as well as humorous columns for the Sunday Herald and the Sunday Telegraph.
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Leon Gellert returned to Adelaide after the death of his wife Kathleen in 1969, living in the suburb of Hazelwood Park, and died eight years later.
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Leon Gellert was subject of a dry-point portrait by Norman Lindsay and a 1923 oil painting by Norman Carter.