Colin Wills

Colin Frederick George Wills (17 January 1906 – 1965) was an Australian journalist, poet, broadcaster, war correspondent, scriptwriter and travel writer.

Background Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Wills grew up on the North Shore of Sydney. During the 1920s and 1930s he worked as a reporter for the Daily Guardian, Smith's Weekly and the Daily Telegraph. as it carried Canadian soldiers to Juno Beach, in Normandy. He visited Belsen concentration camp, in north-west Germany, soon after it was liberated by Allied forces.

Wills later authored three non-fiction books: White Traveller in Black Africa (1951), Who Killed Kenya? (1953) and Australian Passport (1953), all of which were published in London by Dennis Dobson Ltd. Australian Passport combined autobiography with social commentary regarding Australia.

He died at Westminster, London, in 1965.

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