
World War 2: Journalist killed in blackout
A Daily Express journalist has been killed during a blackout in London.
Article first published in the Daily Telegraph, Sept 2, 1939.
Mr. Geoffrey Swaffer, brother of Mr. Hannen Swaffer and himself a well-known journalist, was killed during London’s black-out early on Saturday when the car in which he was a passenger collided with a tram in Kennington Park-road, S.E.
Mr. Swaffer, who was 39, was on the staff of the “Daily Express.”
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