Born Arthur George Silk.
Date of birth : November 17, 1919, Levin, New Zealand.
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As an amateur photographer, he went to work in a camera shop at 16.
His career began in 1939, when he was a combat cameraman for the Australian government, covering action in the Middle East, North Africa and Greece. He was captured by German Field Marshal E.Rommel's forces, but escaped 10 days later.
He photographed many events from Worls War II. He covered the war on the Italian front, the Allied invasions of France and the Pacific. In New Guinea, he walked 300 miles with Allied forces, an ordeal later described in the book "War in New Guinea".
That was there he took what is probably his most famous photos in December 1942; it shows a blinded Australian soldier, barefoot, eyes bandaged, being led through the remote countryside by a traditionally clad tribesman
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He was with the US forces in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 and was wounded by a grenade during a river crossing in Germany.