| Date of birth |
1901-03-27 |
Orange, NSW. |
| Other |
1918 |
Slessor gained employment as a cadet journalist with the Sun newspaper. |
| Other |
1923 - 1924 |
Was a joint editor of Vision; a literary quarterly. |
| Other |
1924 |
Published his first volume of poetry. |
| Other |
1925 |
Slessor worked in Melbourne as chief sub-editor of Punch. |
| Other |
1926 |
Returned to Sydney as a special writer for the Sun. |
| Other |
1927 |
He began working for Smith's Weekly. |
| Other |
1935 |
Became the editor of Smith's Weekly. |
| Other |
1940-02 |
Appointed as an official war correspondent. |
| Other |
1940-05 |
Left for England. |
| Other |
1943 |
Covered the war in New Guinea. |
| Other |
1944 |
Resigned from position as an official war correspondent in a protest against the Army's Public Relations Branch. He returned to his work at the Sun. |
| Other |
1944 |
Published a book of his poetry, 100 poems. |
| Other |
1947 |
Became literary editor of the Sun newspaper. |
| Other |
1953 - 1971 |
Appointed a member of the advisory board of the Commonwealth Literary Fund. |
| Other |
1956 - 1951 |
Editor of the literary journal Southerly. |
| Other |
1956 - 1964 |
Became president of the Journalist's Club in Sydney. |
| Other |
1957 |
Slessor left the Sun to become leader writer and book reviewer for the Daily Telegraph. |
| Date of honour or award |
1959 |
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). |
| Date of death |
1971-06-30 |
North Sydney, NSW. |
