Memorial
WWII correspondent Stewart Sale commemorated in Italy
Thursday 01 October 2009
Sale, 38, was killed on 28 September 1943 at Scafati near Salerno with Alexander Austin of the Daily Herald, and William J. Munday, of the News Chronicle and the Sydney Morning Herald. They were covering the Battle of Scafati during the Italian campaign. All three were buried at the Montecorvino Commonwealth war cemetery.
Sixty-six years later, the local town council has unveiled a commemorative plaque in the town centre and another at the spot where they died. A Città di Scafati journalism prize is to be established in their names.
Sale’s son, Anthony Sale, was present as an honoured guest at the ceremonies and visited his father's grave. The direct descendents of the other two correspondents who also died on that day were also present. They were greeted by the mayor and people of Scafati.
The commemoration was the idea of Angelo Pesce, Scafati’s official historian, who has written a book about the three journalists who died in his town.
● CLICK to read the entry on Stewart Sale in Reuters’ Memorial Book.
Baghdad staff remember dead friends
Saturday 12 July 2008
Baghdad bureau staff marked the first anniversary on Saturday of the deaths of their colleagues Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, photographer, and Saeed Chmagh, 40, driver, in a US helicopter air strike in eastern Baghdad.
About 80 people including other foreign media in Baghdad and members of the two families attended the commemoration.
“Namir and Saeed’s deaths were a tragedy,” editor-in-chief David Schlesinger said in remarks read on his behalf. “Their energy, their professionalism, their friendship, their personalities – these are the memories that represent all that is best about our colleagues in Iraq and our colleagues around the world.”
A collection of Namir’s news pictures was shown during the commemoration and the Iraqi Photographers Association presented the bureau with a plaque.
Reuters is seeking US military video footage of the killings shot from the two Apache helicopters on 12 July 2007. The U.S. military said in an e-mail on Friday it was still processing Reuters’ year-old request.
Nine other people were also killed in the attack.
Four other journalists working for Reuters – Taras Protsyuk, Mazen Dana, Dhia Najim and Waleed Khaled – have been killed by American soldiers in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.
● SOURCE Reuters
About 80 people including other foreign media in Baghdad and members of the two families attended the commemoration.
“Namir and Saeed’s deaths were a tragedy,” editor-in-chief David Schlesinger said in remarks read on his behalf. “Their energy, their professionalism, their friendship, their personalities – these are the memories that represent all that is best about our colleagues in Iraq and our colleagues around the world.”
A collection of Namir’s news pictures was shown during the commemoration and the Iraqi Photographers Association presented the bureau with a plaque.
Reuters is seeking US military video footage of the killings shot from the two Apache helicopters on 12 July 2007. The U.S. military said in an e-mail on Friday it was still processing Reuters’ year-old request.
Nine other people were also killed in the attack.
Four other journalists working for Reuters – Taras Protsyuk, Mazen Dana, Dhia Najim and Waleed Khaled – have been killed by American soldiers in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.
● SOURCE Reuters
