Denys Corley Smith
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Denys Corley Smith (9 June 1922 – 21 February 1989) was a British author and journalist.
Corley Smith was born 9 June 1922 in Bolton, then in Lancashire, the younger son of Thomas Smith (born 1874) a teacher, and Nena Alice Brown (1887–1932). His elder brother was Gerard Corley Smith, who went on to become a British diplomat.[1][failed verification]
Corley Smith was educated at Bolton School and, like his brother, studied the modern languages tripos (French and German) at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, completing Part I in 1942.[2] During the Second World War he fought with the Manchester Regiment in Italy. The Manchesters saw much action during the Battles for the Gothic Line in August–September 1944, including the Battle of Montegridolfo. At the end of the War he began a newsman's career initially editing a frontline newspaper for the military.[3]
Journalism
In the early 1950s he joined Reuters as a correspondent in Asia. His first assignment was covering the Korean War and he then moved to Saigon until 1956,[4] and then took various other posts before becoming freelance in 1963. He continued to write for a variety of publications and journals including This is Japan where he wrote an article on the Katakana where he mentions that he was a regular visitor to Tokyo.
