John Mungo Ballardie MacCallum (1913 - 1999)

Born 11 Dec 1913 in Point Piper, New South Wales, Australia

Ancestors

Husband of Diana Wentworth (Wentworth) MacCallum — married 1939 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Died 12 Jul 1999 at age 85 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Mungo MacCallum is Notable.

Mungo MacCallum was born in New South Wales, Australia

Mungo MacCallum has Scottish Ancestors.

Mungo Ballardie MacCallum was born on 11 December 1913 at Point Piper, New South Wales, Australia, the son of Mungo Lorenz MacCallum, barrister and journalist, and Hilda Kathleen Ballardie. ^[1] He attended Sydney Grammar School.

He became a noted journalist, broadcaster and poet. Mungo began as a cadet journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald during his second year at the University of Sydney, shortly before his father's death in 1934.

Mungo married Diana Wentworth, daughter of William Charles Wentworth III and Florence Griffths (and great granddaughter of noted explorer, journalist and politician, William Charles Wentworth), on 23 May 1939 in Sydney, New South Wales. ^[2] Their marriage ended in divorce by 1971; their son by then an adult, Mungo Wentworth MacCallum (1941-2020).

Mungo MacCallum is a Military Veteran.
Served in the Australian Army 1941-1946
Australian Army Education Service

In 1941 Mungo joined the Commonwealth Military Force's Army Education Service as the editor of SALT, a journal written largely by Australian troops, with contributions from several well-known Australian writers and from Mungo himself. On 3rd December 1942 he transferred to the Second Australian Imperial force, no doubt as it was the nation's expeditionary force, providing service outside Australia's borders. ^[3] After the end of the war in 1945 and the closure of SALT the following year, Mungo was discharged on 9 May 1946 and worked for several years as a columnist with The Sun, a Sydney tabloid newspaper, before joining the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) in 1952. After a stint at the British Broadcasting Commission (BBC), he helped produce the first night of television in Australia in 1956.

Mungo's books included two novels, Voyage of Love and Son of Mars, and a memoir, Plankton's Luck. Later, in the 1960s, he wrote for a journal named Nation.

Mungo married a second time, to Hazel 'Polly' Cook in 1971 in Sydney. ^[4]

Aged 85 years, Mungo passed away on 12 July 1999 in Sydney. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ New South Wales Birth Index #45718/1913
2. ↑ New South Wales Marriage Index #6492/1939
3. ↑ Department of Veterans' Affairs nominal roll: NX139824 (N270034) Major Mungo Ballardie MacCallum; accessed 15 Sep 2023
4. ↑ New South Wales Marriage Index #3037/1971
5. ↑ Ryerson Index of Death Notices

See also

• Wikipedia: Mungo Ballardie MacCallum; acessed 15 Sep 2023.