Obituary: Denis Warner

After service with the Australian army in the Middle East during World War II, Warner became a war correspondent with US forces in the Pacific. In 1947 his journalistic career took him to Tokyo as editorial manager and chief correspondent of AAP-Reuters. The Reuters operation in Japan in those days consisted of little more than a desk in the Associated Press’s office in the Radio Tokyo building. Warner later worked for many other news organisations and covered every major war from WWII to Korea and Vietnam, as well as numerous smaller conflicts. Colleagues remembered him for having impeccable contacts.

His son Nick Warner heads the Australian Secret Intelligence Service.

PHOTO: Denis Warner in army uniform during World War II. ■