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A rare war correspondent’s Korea and Suez Crisis campaign group of seven awarded to Frank Goldsworthy, who worked at the Daily Express for over 40 years, a career interrupted only once by wartime service as a Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R., when he witnessed the famous “Atlantic Meeting” between Churchill and Roosevelt in 1941 and was employed in Naval Intelligence in the Mediterranean theatre: his career “scoops” included coverage of the arrival of H.M.S. Amethyst at Hong Kong in 1949 and the mysterious disappearance of naval diver Commander “Buster” Crabb in 1956, just two of the many fascinating stories featured in his autobiography Want You Soonest, Memoirs of a War Reporter 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Korea 1950-53 (F. E. Goldsworthy); U.N. Korea; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (F. Goldsworthy, War Correspondent), together with original addressed card forwarding box for the 1939-45 awards and box of issue for the sixth, good very fine and better (7) £2000-2500 Footnote Frank Goldsworthy, who was born in Darlington in January 1912, began his journalistic career on his hometown Evening Despatch at £1 a week in 1929, where ‘accuracy, first, last and always’ was impressed upon him by a succession of fierce chief reporters. But it was in his subsequent career at the Daily Express, which newspaper he joined at the age of 23, that Goldsworthy established himself as a reporter and foreign correspondent of rare ability. It was, too, as related in his obituary in The Times, a career that ‘was as unpredictable and exciting as anything from the pages of Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop’. Meanwhile, however, on the advent of hostilities, Goldsworthy enlisted in the “Wavy Navy” as a Writer and, in August 1941, found himself seconded to “Operation Zebra”, the code-name for the famous “Atlantic Conference” between Churchill and Roosevelt held aboard H.M.S. Prince of Wales in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. And as a result of his skills in shorthand and typing, Goldsworthy found himself directly involved in the compilation of some extremely sensitive and secret minutes, and actually ‘bashed out the signal informing both the cabinet and the world of the agreement’; he also found time to get a photograph of Churchill chatting to a sailor, but was refused permission to release it to his old friends at the Daily Express. After being commissioned, Goldsworthy served in Naval Intelligence for three years, mainly at Gibraltar and in Italy, during the course of which duties he often liaised with Ian Fleming The latter wrote to him in July 1945, praising his work (‘You have certainly had a most interesting war ... I was very sorry I missed you when you were back earlier this year’). Returning to the Daily Express after the War, Goldsworthy found himself in the envious position of gaining passage aboard H.M.S. Amethyst as she made her way to a triumphant reception at Hong Kong following her epic escape from the Yangtze in 1949 - he actually joined her at sea from H.M.S. Jamaica. Interestingly, too, just 48 hours after her arrival, he became the first journalist to see Coxswain Leslie Frank’s famous diary of the incident, and was granted permission by Commander Kerans to take extracts for a leader page feature in the Daily Express. In fact such was the unique nature of his subsequent reports and pictures that he was cabled by his Editor: ‘We have complete world scoop “Amethyst” pictures today renewed congratulations your outstanding enterprise.’ When the Korean War broke out, Goldsworthy was despatched to the U.N. naval base at Sasebo in Southern Japan, from where he joined H.M.S. Jamaica on several operations, including the landings at Inchon. On this latter occasion the Jamaica was attacked by enemy aircraft and Goldsworthy’s “Action Station” hit by a cannon-shell - luckily he had been slow to rise that day, otherwise ‘there just would not have been enough room for all that cannon-shell shrapnel and for me.’ He afterwards ga