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Chester Wilmot

Australian journalist and war historian

Died when: 42 years 203 days (510 months)
Star Sign: Cancer

 

Chester Wilmot

Reginald William Winchester Wilmot (21 June 1911 – 10 January 1954) was an Australian war correspondent who reported for the BBC and the ABC during the Second World War.

After the war he continued to work as a broadcast reporter, and wrote a well-appreciated book about the liberation of Europe.

He was killed in the crash of a BOAC Comet (Yoke Peter) over the Mediterranean Sea.


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