David Blundy was a British journalist and war correspondent. Son of an antiques dealer who had a shop at the Elephant and Castle, he was educated at the City of London School

City of London School

The City of London School is a boys' independent day school on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London, England. It is the brother school of the City of London School for Girls and the co-educational City of London Freemen's School...

 (one of his contemporaries there was the novelist Julian Barnes) and Bristol University. He covered many of the world's troublespots including Belfast, Beirut, El Salvador and the West Bank as well as Washington and Tripoli. He was killed by a sniper in El Salvador.