Sir Frederic Hamilton Piozzi Salusbury (17 November 1895 – 13 December 1957) was an Australian-born British

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and

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. He was also a member of the

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Biography

Salusbury became a second lieutenant in the

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(KSLI) in 1916, during the

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. He served for three years in the regiment before being demobilized. After the war, became a judge's associate in the

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and then, in 1922, came to Britain where after a spell of free lance journalism and film acting he joined the Daily Express where he was editor of the Beachcomber column. Salusbury served as a war correspondent in the Mediterranean during the

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and subsequently received his first posting as the acting British Ambassador to Greece due to his personal friendship with

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. He later created the English edition of the ''

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'' after buying a majority holding in the paper. He was the editor of the Egyptian Gazetta in Cairo from 1952 to 1954.

References

* Wood, W De B., ed. The History of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in the Great War (1914–1918). London: Medici Society, 1924. 1895 births 1958 deaths King's Shropshire Light Infantry officers British Army personnel of World War I Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Greece Frederic {{UK-journalist-stub