Fonds F1337 - Richard Sankey Malone fonds

Richard Sankey Malone was born in 1909 in Owen Sound, Ontario, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Willard Park and Mildred Villiers (Sankey) Malone. He attended the University of Toronto Schools and Ridley College, St. Catharines, Ontario. He was engaged in newspaper work from 1927 to 1978 and was a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery from 1934 to 1935 He also had a distinguished career in the Second World War. He enlisted in 1939 and was Staff Secretary to the Minister of Defence, 1940. After graduation from the Staff College, he was Staff Captain with 5 Armoured Division and subsequently Brigadier Major in the First Division. In Italy he was Personel Liaison Officer to Field Marshall Montgomery. Later he was Assistant Director of Public Relations, 21st Army Group and in charge of the Canadian Public Relations of the Normandy campaign. He headed the Canadian Mission to General MacArthur's Headquarters. He was among the first to enter Paris, Brussels and Tokyo. He was present at the signing of the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri on September 1, 1945. In 1946 he was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of Canada in 1946. He was author of "Missing from the Record" (1946);" The Muddle in Defence" (1969), "Organizing for defence: Some comments on the Government White Paper" (1962), "A World in Flames, 1944-1945" (1984) and "A Portrait of War, 1939-1943" (1983).