Editing Alan Whicker (section)

==Military service==
During the [[Second World War]] he served in the [[British Army]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20734338 | title = Obituary: Alan Whicker | date = 12 July 2013 | access-date = 12 July 2013|publisher = BBC News}}</ref> He was commissioned as a [[second lieutenant]] in the [[Devonshire Regiment]] on 8 August 1942.<ref name="LG 21 August 1942">{{London Gazette |issue= 35677 |date= 21 August 1942 |page= 3702 |supp= y }}</ref> He then joined the British Army's [[Army Film and Photographic Unit]] in Italy in 1943,<ref name=indy/> filming at [[Operation Shingle|Anzio]] and meeting such influential figures as [[Bernard Montgomery|Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery]].<ref name=telegraphobit/> In March 1944, he was [[mentioned in despatches]] "in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Sicily".<ref name="LG 21 March 1944">{{London Gazette |issue= 36436 |date= 21 March 1944 |pages= 1367-1369 |supp= y}}</ref> He transferred to the [[Royal Army Ordnance Corps]] on 1 April 1945 with the [[war substantive rank]] of [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]].<ref name="LG 24 August 1945">{{London Gazette |issue= 37239 |date= 24 August 1945 |page= 4325 |supp= y }}</ref>

In the documentary ''Whicker's War'' he revealed that he was one of the first in the Allied forces to enter [[Milan]] and that he took into custody an [[SS]] general and staff who were guarding the SS's paymaster's payroll money used to pay the SS troops, along with large amounts of cash in various foreign currencies, all contained within a large trunk. Whicker later handed over the SS men and the trunk of cash to the commander of an advancing US armoured column.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.amazon.co.uk/Whickers-War-DVD/dp/B000B5KEGO | publisher = Amazon|access-date = 12 July 2013|title = Whicker's War [DVD]}}</ref> While in Milan Whicker shot footage of [[Death of Benito Mussolini|the body of]] [[Benito Mussolini]]<ref name=indy/> and was also responsible for taking into custody British traitor [[John Amery]].<ref name=telegraphobit/>