Template:Did you know nominations/Bernard Gray (Sunday Pictorial journalist)

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... that war correspondent Bernard Gray was killed while travelling as an unofficial passenger aboard a Royal Navy submarine during the Second World War?

Source: "He was revealed as the only unofficial passenger to sail on a British submarine in the second world war, and the only journalist to die in one. He was killed with 43 other men when enemy aircraft bombed the submarine HMS Urge on her way from Malta to Egypt in May 1942." from: Ezard, John (15 November 2003). "'Piratical' reporter's death on second world war submarine confirmed". The Guardian.

ALT1: ... that during the 1940 German invasion of Belgium Bernard Gray reported from Brussels alongside Kim Philby, later revealed to be a Soviet spy? Source: "Bernard Gray of London's Sunday Pictorial managed to get into Brussels on May 15 with Harold 'Kim' Philby of The Times, who would years later be revealed to have been a Soviet agent since 1934." from: Moseley, Ray (21 February 2017). Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II. Yale University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-300-22634-8.
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Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 909 past nominations.

Dumelow (talk) 23:07, 16 November 2024 (UTC).