SALERNO WAR CEMETERY Caption with this picture reads: Following the internment of the remains of three war correspondents killed during the fighting at Scafati on 28th September a memorial service held at the graves side. The correspondents were A.B. Austin, Stewart Sale and William Munday. A. Austin with The Daily Herald CWGC :: Certificate S. Sale with Reuters Ltd CWGC :: Certificate W. Munday seems to have survived the war or isn't listed on CWGC.
WILLIAM JOHN MUNDAY, Mentioned in Despatches, Sydney Morning Herald. CWGC :: Casualty Details WWII correspondent Stewart Sale commemorated in Italy | Reuters, Journalism, Memorial | THE BARON Stewart Sale
Good find, but they weren't buried at Salerno originally. Somewhere I have a note of it. When I find it, will post it here.
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Graves war correspondents A.B. Austin S.G. Sale and W.J. Munday Salerno War Cemetery (1st August 2021 Martin Hilgers) Field graves correspondents A.B. Austin S.G. Sale and W.J. Munday Scafati 16th October 1945 Capt Knight Source: CROSSING OF THE VOLTURNO RIVER Screenshot damaged Bren carrier at the scene in Scafati where 3 war correspondents were killed Reuters Archive Licensing record 2.41 min
#2 gives "The requested URL /news_files/a5917af9999f3e1797d4e7d3960ac847-273.php was not found on this server." Stewart Sale Born: Luton, England, 28 February 1905 Joined Reuters: October 1942 Died: Scafati near Naples, Italy, 28 September 1943 Once a protégé of novelist Edgar Wallace (himself briefly a Reuters correspondent) on the Bucks Mail, Stewart Sale worked for the Press Association and the Daily Telegraph before joining Reuters. He was offered ‘admin’ posts but said he preferred to stay a reporter. Reporting was what he did best, he said and subscribers agreed: there was wide praise for his war coverage, especially for a dramatic account of a bombing raid on Berlin. Sale was assigned to cover the British 5th Army in Italy. On 28 September 1943, he and other war correspondents entered the town of Scafati, some 25 kilometres, or 15 miles, south east of Naples, behind the advancing British soldiers. They waited while the infantry cleared backstreets of the town. Then church bells began ringing, and townsfolk began to emerge from shelters and cheer the British troops. Sale interviewed some of them. “Things looked absolutely safe,” reported Frank Gillard, of the BBC. Suddenly, gunfire broke out again. A German half-track with a big gun mounted had returned to do battle. It was early afternoon. Reporters scattered, seeking cover. But for Sale, standing at a street corner with two other correspondents, it was too late. A German shell landed among them and they were killed outright. Sale, along with A.B. Austin, of the Daily Herald, and William J. Munday, of the News Chronicle and the Sydney Morning Herald, were buried at Salerno war cemetery. A memorial service for all three was held in October 1943, at the church of St Dunstan’s-in-the-West, Fleet Street, St Bride’s, the ‘newspapermen’s church’ next door to Reuters HQ, having been reduced to a roofless wreck by German bombing. Source: Stewart Sale - THE BARON
Commander of the 8th Army Montgomery talking to several war correpondents. 2nd left is Alexander Austin en 6th left (with baret) is Stewart Sale. Picture is made by Capt. Knight 25th of september three days before the fatal shelling. Source: INVASION OF ITALY : THREE WAR CORRESPONDENTS KILLED NA7243
