Leonard Marsland Gander (1902-1986), who wrote as L Marsland Gander) was a journalist, war correspondent, and radio and television correspondent, chiefly for ''

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was fo ...

''. In 1935 he was appointed as the first ever television critic by the ''Daily Telegraph'', having already worked on the paper as their radio correspondent.Dennis Griffiths ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, pp.258-59 During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

he served as a war correspondent, and was at the

Battle of Monte Cassino The Battle of Monte Cassino, also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino, was a series of four assaults made by the Allies against German forces in Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The ultimate objective was ...

in May 1944, and the Liberation of Amsterdam in 1945. In 1946 Gander returned to his earlier post at ''The Daily Telegraph'' as the radio and television correspondent and critic, remaining on the paper's staff until his retirement in 1970. His autobiography ''After These Many Quests'' was published in 1950. Gander was a castaway on an edition of the BBC Radio programme '' Desert Island Discs'' broadcast on 17 March 1969. His private papers are in the

Imperial War Museum Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military ...

in London.

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1902 births Place of birth missing 1986 deaths Place of death missing British war correspondents British male journalists The Daily Telegraph people 20th-century English businesspeople {{UK-journalist-stub