Anthony Loyd
| Anthony Loyd | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Anthony William Vivian Loyd 12 September 1966 Churt on the Hampshire/Surrey, UK |
| Occupation | war correspondent |
| Spouse(s) | 2002 - 2005 Lady Sophia Hamilton |
Anthony William Vivian Loyd (born 12 September 1966) is an English journalist, a noted war correspondent.
Loyd grew up in Churt on the Hampshire–Surrey border and attended St Edmund's School, Hindhead, and Eton College.
He went to school for journalism and then went to Bosnia with a vague plan to cover the ongoing war. He started taking pictures but almost by accident an American reporter offered to buy some that he saw. So Loyd became a war photographer supporting himself by selling photos for 50 Deutschemarks per photograph. Much later Loyd was traveling taking photos with British forces around Travnik, central Bosnia and Herzegovina about 90 km west of Sarajevo. While covering a fire fight a French correspondent who was writing for The Daily Telegraph was wounded by a claymore mine set off by the Croat HVO forces. The wounded correspondent asked Loyd to fill in until the paper could send a replacement, Loyd agreed and so started his first job as a journalist. Afterwards he was put on retainer by The Times of London and regularly sent to war zones around the world.
Among the wars he reported were the conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Iraq. Loyd was noted for the risks he took in pursuing his stories. His most recent bylines (as of 15 September 2005) have been from Baghdad, where he has been out on patrol with both the American and Iraqi forces.
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