Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
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Wynford Vaughan-Thomas CBE |
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| Born |
15 August 1908 Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, UK |
| Died | 4 February 1987 (aged 78) Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Occupation | Broadcaster, journalist and writer |
| Employer | BBC, HTV |
Lewis John Wynford Vaughan-Thomas CBE (15 August 1908 – 4 February 1987) was a Welsh newspaper journalist and radio and television broadcaster. In later life he took the name Vaughan-Thomas after his father.
Thomas was born in Swansea, in South Wales, the second son of Dr. David Vaughan Thomas, a Professor of Music, and Morfydd Lewis, the daughter of Daniel Lewis who was one of the leaders of the Rebecca riots in Pontardulais.
He attended the Bishop Gore School, Swansea, where the English master was the father of Dylan Thomas, who was just entering the school at the time that Vaughan-Thomas was leaving for Exeter College, Oxford. At Oxford he read Modern History and gained a second class Academic degree.
In the mid 1930s he joined the BBC and in 1937 gave the Welsh language commentary on the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. This was the precursor to several English language commentaries on state occasions he was to give after the Second World War. During the war he established his name and reputation as one of the BBC's most distinguished war correspondents of the Second World War. His most memorable report was from an RAF Lancaster bomber during a real bombing raid over Nazi Berlin. Other notable reports were from Anzio, the Burgundy vineyards, Lord Haw Haw's broadcasting studio and the Belsen concentration camp.
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