L Marsland Gander

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.

He served as a war correspondent in World War II, and was at the Battle of Monte Cassino in May 1944, and the Liberation of Amsterdam in 1945.

He appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 17 March 1969.

His private papers are in the Imperial War Museum in London.