Malcolm Uren

7 April 1927 edition, with the Countryman behind

Malcolm John Leggoe Uren, OBE (7 January 1900 – 22 July 1973) was an Australian journalist who edited the Western Mail in Western Australia.

Early life[]

Uren was born on 7 January 1900 in West Hindmarsh, an inner-city suburb in Adelaide, South Australia to and . The Uren family then moved to Perth, the capital of Western Australia. Uren married on 25 August 1923. They had a son, Malcolm Charles Uren (Bon) (1924–2002) and four grandchildren, Leslie (1948) and Malcolm John Spencer (1951–2004), and Robin (1963) and John (1965).

Career[]

Uren became a with the Perth-based Western Mail in 1920, and by 1941 was its editor.^[1]

From Malcolm Uren, Editor of The Western Mail Perth, WA, To Donald Clive Anderson, Australian Specialist, Ministry of Information, 1944.

Later life[]

In 1965 Uren was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He died on 22 July 1973.

Published works[]

• (1945) Sailormen's ghosts: the Abrolhos islands in three hundred years of romance, history, and adventure. Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens.
• (1945) Waterless horizons: the first full-length study of the extraordinary life-story of Edward John Eyre, explorer, overlander and pastoralist in Australia. Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens.
• (1948) Land Looking West: The story of Governor James Stirling in Western Australia. London: Oxford University Press.
• (1959) A Thousand Men at War: A history of the 2/16th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF. Willian Heinemann
• (1964) Edward John Eyre (Australian explorers). London: Oxford University Press.
• (1970) The City of Melville From Bushland to Expanding Metropolis. Melville City

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