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Honour Roll

“Honouring the memory of Australian war correspondents”

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This Honour Roll of journalists, artists, photographers, cine cameramen and crews killed and wounded in action is in the process of being compiled.

KILLED IN ACTION

BOER WAR

  • William Lambie The Melbourne Age 5 February 1900 Natal in South Africa.

WORLD WAR I

  • Phillip Schuler – The Melbourne Age – died a member of the AIF of wounds in France in June 1917

WORLD WAR II

  • Ted Brenton The Sydney Daily Telegraph – Malta
  • J.C. Campbell The Sydney Daily Telegraph – Libya
  • Harold Dick The Sydney Daily Telegraph – New Guinea 1943
  • Randle Feildon The Sydney Daily Telegraph
  • R.P. Terpening DFC The Sydney Daily Telegraph
  • ACE Mcintosh The Sydney Daily Telegraph – Italy
  • Keith Palmer The Melbourne Herald – Solomons 1942
  • Thomas Fisher – Buna 1942
  • William Munday The Sydney Morning Herald – Italy 1943
  • Norman Stockton The Sydney Sun – Berlin 1943
  • Pendil Rayner The Brisbane Telegraph – New Guinea 1943
  • Damien Parer – Philippines 1944
  • John Elliott Sydney – Borneo July 1945
  • William Smith Perth – Borneo July 1945
  • Roderick McDonald The Sydney Morning Herald – Italy 1944
  • Hedley Metcalfe – Java 1942

KOREA

  • Derek Pearcy Reuters – April 1951

VIETNAM

  • Bruce Piggott Reuters – Saigon 5 May 1968
  • Michael Birch Reuters – Saigon 5 May 1968
  • John Cantwell Time Magazine – Saigon 5 May 1968
  • Ron Laramy (British-born) Reuters 1968

TIMOR

  • Greg Shackleton The Seven Network – Balibo 1975
  • Tony Stewart The Seven Network – Balibo 1975
  • Roger East AAP – 8 December 1975Gary Cunningham The Seven Network 1975
  • Brian Peters (British-born) Channel Nine 1975
  • Malcolm Rennie Channel Nine 1975

AFRICA

  • Tony Joyce ABC shot in Zambia, died London 4 February 1980

THAILAND

  • Neil Davis NBS TV – Bangkok in 1990

AFGHANISTAN

  • Harry Burton Reuters – 19 November 2001

IRAQ

  • Paul Moran ABC 2003

WOUNDED

SUDAN

  • William Lambie The Melbourne Age

BOER WAR

  • Smiler Hales

WWI

  • Charles Bean The Sydney Morning Herald – Gallipoli 1915

WWII

  • Tom Fairhall The Sydney Daily Telegraph Buna 1942
  • Geoffrey Reading The Daily Mirror Buna 1942
  • Keith Black Army journalist Buna 1942
  • Hayden Lennard ABC New Guinea 1943
  • Osmar White The Sun News Pictorial the Solomons 1943
  • Wilfred Burchett The Daily Telegraph Burma 1943
  • Selwyn Speight The Sydney Morning Herald China 1944

THE MIDDLE EAST

  • Tony Walker The London Financial Times – Ramallah September 1993

PRISONERS OF WAR

  • Jack Percival The Sydney Morning Herald prisoner of the Japanese 1944