MELBOURNE 12th November 1943, Thursday.--Mr. Roydon Keith Palmer, war correspondent of the Melbourne "Herald" and the Sydney "Sun" in the South Pacific area, was killed instantly by a Japanese heavy bomb on Sunday.

Mr. Palmer had been covering American operations at Bougainville, in the Solomons, and his recent messages had described the landing of United States marines at Empress Augusta Bay. He participated in the operation as a front-line correspondent

.Born in New Zealand in 1007; Mr. Palmer was educated at the Nelson College and the Canterbury University College. He entered journalism in New Zealand, and came to

Australia in 1936 to join the staff of the "Herald,"  Melbourne He was an authority on aviation, and became afirm friend of the late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith with whom he made many flights He was the first journalist to fly around Australia He also made a flight to the United States when the Clipper service was inaugurated in 1940.

Before being assigned to the South Pacific he represented the combined Australian Press as a correspondent with the Royal Australian Navy.

Mr Palmer  leaves a widow and two young children He has been buried in a war cemetery near where he was killed.