Guy Byam
Guy Byam | |
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| Died | 3 February 1945 |
| Cause of death | Aircraft lost in battle |
| Occupation | Radio journalist |
| Employer | BBC |
Guy Frederick Byam-Corstiaens (died 3 February 1945) was a British journalist and sailor.
Byam served in the
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and was one of only 68 survivors of the 254 crew of HMS Jervis Bay which was sunk in November 1940 in the North Atlantic. Byam lost the sight in his right eye in the incident, having swum through oil to be rescued.[1]
Due to his injuries Byam was released from his duties and worked for an engineering company before joining the
D-Day Byam jumped with paratroopers into occupied France.[2][3] Byam was later part of the Public Relations team under Major R. W. Oliver that was present at the Battle of Arnhem alongside fellow BBC reporter Stanley Maxted and newspaper reporters Alan Wood of the Daily Express and Jack Smyth of Reuters.[4]
Byam was killed when the plane from which he was reporting, the Rose of York, was shot down over Germany during a daylight air raid on Berlin in February 1945. Byam was one of two BBC reporters who were killed during the Second World War (the other being Kent Stevenson, who was also killed whilst reporting on a bombing raid).[1]
References
- ^ a b c Vincent Dowd (12 September 2015). "WW2: Guy Byam, the BBC's lost reporter". BBC News Online. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-4767-7295-0.
- ISBN 978-1-84415-648-1.
- ISBN 978-1-78159-177-2.
