Warwick Charlton


Warwick Charlton was an English journalist and public relations worker.

Life

A journalist's son, Warwick Charlton was educated at Epsom College. He took several reporting jobs on Fleet Street before the Second World War, during which he served alongside American forces in North Africa as Field Marshal Montgomery's press officer, wrote Eighth Army News, campaigned for better pay for frontline troops and founded other service newspapers.
Postwar, he is best known as the English mover behind Project Mayflower and the construction of Mayflower II, as a commemoration of the wartime cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States. He spent his retirement at Avon Castle, near Ringwood, and acted as Ringwood's town crier. His obituary in The Telegraph stated he was:

Works