![]() He returned to the Sunday Times as a sub-editor in 1915, before moving to the Daily Telegraph. Sacked for being an advocate for the fledgling Australian Journalists’ Association (AJA), he moved to the Orange Leader in 1914. While learning Latin from a priest, he was encouraged to join the priesthood, with the prospect of an education in Rome, but the idea-along with his faith-passed quickly. ![]() ![]() In 1913 O’Sullivan joined Bathurst’s National Advocate, and subsequently the Bathurst Times. A cadetship at the Evening News and Sydney Mail followed about 1910, with O’Sullivan becoming an expert in shorthand, a useful source of extra income. An early recruit to the Boy Scouts, he ran messages for Robert Clyde Packer, the chief scoutmaster of New South Wales, at the Sunday Times. Chris attended Christian Brothers’ School, Lewisham, until he was fourteen. ![]() Christopher Michael O’Sullivan (1895–1996), journalist, was born on 26 October 1895 at Lewisham, Sydney, sixth of thirteen children of Irish-born John O’Sullivan, railway clerk, and his locally born wife Julia Ann, née Murray. ![]()
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