Clare Hollingworth
Clare Hollingworth OBE (10 October 1911 – 10 January 2017) was an English journalist and author. She was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as "the scoop of the century". As a rookie reporter for The Daily Telegraph in 1939, while travelling from Poland to Germany, she spotted and reported German forces massed on the Polish border; The Daily Telegraph headline read: "1,000 tanks massed on Polish border"; three days later she was the first to report the German invasion of Poland.
Clare Hollingworth OBE | |
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Saigon, 1968 | |
| Born | 10 October 1911 Knighton, Leicester, England |
| Died | 10 January 2017 (aged 105) |
| Resting place | St. Margaret of Antioch, Bygrave, Hertfordshire, England |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1939–1981 |
| Known for | Being the first journalist to report the outbreak of World War II |
| Spouses | Vandeleur Robinson
(m. 1936; div. 1951)Geoffrey Hoare
(m. 1951; died 1965) |
Hollingworth was appointed OBE by Elizabeth II for "services to journalism" in 1982. She died on 10 January 2017 at the age of 105.
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