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Neil Brian Davis (14 February 1934 – 9 September 1985) was an Australian combat cameraman who was recognised for his work as a photojournalist during the Vietnam War and other conflicts in the region. He was killed in Bangkok on 9 September 1985, while filming a minor Thai coup attempt.
Neil Davis was a legendary cameraman and war correspondent who covered the Vietnam War and Cambodian conflict from the Vietnamese perspective. He was killed by a coup in Bangkok in 1985, after a career of courage, compassion and innovation.
Nov 16, 2018 · Neil Davis’s frontline filming of combat in Indochina inspired a generation of foreign correspondents. In 11 years working for VISNEWS, a British internation...
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Sep 8, 2015 · Thirty years after he was killed by shrapnel while filming conflict in Bangkok, Tasmanian-born combat cameraman Neil Davis is being remembered for his skill and daring. Davis's coverage of conflict in Indochina inspired a generation of foreign correspondents, including Peter Greste.
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Davis was one of the most battle-hardened cameramen in Vietnam but it was a tinpot coup attempt in Bangkok on the morning of September 9, 1985, that became his final effort: he was hit by shrapnel and then filmed his own death. His camera captured Australian colleague Gary Burns dragging him away.
Neil Davis, one of Australia's most respected combat cameramen, was born on 14 February 1934 in southern Tasmania. He was a good student, a keen sportsman and took up photography in his high school years. He left school at 14 to work in the Tasmanian Government Film Unit.
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Neil Brian Davis (1934-1985), cameraman and war correspondent, was born on 14 February 1934 in Hobart, youngest of four children of Tasmanian-born parents Geoffrey Crocker Davis, farmer, and his wife Marjorie Elaine, née New.
