Sandy Gall

Gall was born as the only child of Scottish parents on 1 October 1927,{{cite news |last=Jones |first=Tony |date=21 June 1979 |title=Every bit a gentleman |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-every-bit-a-gentleman-the/156862636/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=The Journal |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}} on a rubber plantation in Penang, Straits Settlements (present-day Malaysia), where his father Henderson was a rubber planter.{{cite news |last1=Moore |first1=Charles |author-link=Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham |date=14 August 2010 |title=Sandy Gall's dream for Afghanistan |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7944508/Sandy-Galls-dream-for-Afghanistan.html |access-date=15 November 2019 |work=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cite web |date=2006 |title=Sandy Gall |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000034957/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=fa72751e |url-access=subscription |access-date=9 October 2024 |work=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |via=Gale In Context: Biography}} His mother, Jean ({{Nee|Begg}}), was a homemaker. When he was four years old, he moved to Scotland and lived with relatives.{{cite web |date=7 February 2006 |title=Gall, Henderson Alexander ('Sandy') (Oral history) |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80032309 |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Imperial War Museum}} Gall was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond, an independent boys' school in Perthshire, where he boarded.{{cite web |date=6 October 1998 |title=Some former pupils show the way |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12336245.some-former-pupils-show-the-way/ |access-date=15 November 2019 |website=The Herald |publisher=}}{{cite news |last=Stephens |first=Joan |date=19 September 1979 |title=Fireproof—and he's been in some hot spots! |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/leicester-mercury-fireproof-and-hes-bee/156861802/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Leicester Mercury |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}} He did his national service working as a physical training instructor in the Royal Air Force in Berlin for two and a half years. Gall graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1952 with a Master of Arts degree in French and German.{{cite news |last=Flett |first=Al |date=4 January 1978 |title=Newscaster recalls Amin jail ordeal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/leicester-mercury-newscaster-recalls-ami/156861172/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Leicester Mercury |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}

In 1952, he began his journalistic career as a trainee sub-editor at the Aberdeen Press and Journal.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoontelevis0000unse_n6w5 |title=The Completely Revised and Updated – Who's Who on Television – 1990–91 |publisher=Boxtree Limited |year=1990 |isbn=1-85283-105-7 |editor-last=Hayward |editor-first=Anthony |edition=Fifth |location=London, England |page=73 |url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive}}{{cite news |last=Messent |first=Maureen |date=29 September 1983 |title=Sandy Gall goes to war with Russia |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/black-country-evening-mail-sandy-gall-go/156861677/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Black Country Evening Mail |page=17 |via=Newspapers.com}} Gall applied to work as a trainee foreign correspondent for the Reuters international news agency and this was accepted in May 1953.{{cite news |last=Gale |first=George |author-link=George Gale (journalist) |date=9 March 1983 |title=Rogues, rovers and roisters |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-rogues-rovers-and-rois/156864611/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Evening Standard |page=19 |via=Newspapers.com}} He remained at the agency until 1963. Gall covered events in the Congo, East Africa, Germany, Hungary and South Africa.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswho2007whosw0000blac |title=Who's Who 2007 |publisher=A & C Black |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7136-7527-6 |edition=159th |location=London, England |page=815 |url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive}} In September 1960, he, the BBC's Richard Williams and the Daily Express's George Gale were arrested in Bakwanga in the breakaway province of Kasai whilst reporting on the Congo Crisis as a Belgian spy and for not having official Congolese documentation.{{Cite news |date=3 September 1960 |title=UN Seeking Release of British Newsmen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-post-un-seeking-release-of-briti/156828326/ |access-date=9 October 2024 |work=Nottingham Evening Post |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |last=Wright |first=Brian |date=5 September 1960 |title=Mystery of Mission by Czechs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-mystery-of-mission-b/156829828/ |access-date=9 October 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |page=22 |via=Newspapers.com}} The three journalists were ordered released into the custody of Tunisian soldiers.

Gall joined Independent Television News (ITN) in 1963 as a foreign reporter and troubleshooter, working in Afghanistan, Africa, China, the Far East, the Middle East and Vietnam. and began working as a newsreader on the News at Ten in 1970. In 1972, he was arrested in Uganda on the orders of dictator Idi Amin. Gall was the presenter of the Thames Television programme A Place in Europe from 1975 to 1977.{{Cite news |last=Day-Lewis |first=Sean |date=26 May 1975 |title=Brussels from the inside |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-brussels-from-the-in/156863655/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |page=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=6 April 1977 |title=What's On the Box – STV |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-record-a-place-in-europe-daily-r/156863747/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Daily Record |page=20 |via=Newspapers.com}} and of the programme Freeze in 1975, examining the aspects of freezers and the foods to store in them.{{Cite news |date=8 September 1975 |title=On Westward this autumn |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/herald-express-on-westward-this-autumn/156864162/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Torquay Herald Express |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}} In January 1976, he and a camera operator were briefly detained by the police in Madrid after filming outside a strike-affected Chrysler car factory.{{Cite news |date=20 January 1976 |title=Newsmen are held |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/western-daily-press-newsmen-are-held-w/156864247/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Western Daily Press |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}} Gall narrated the ITV documentary Journey's End on the Vietnamese boat people who had settled at the Thorney Island camp near Portsmouth in 1980.{{Cite news |last=Day-Lewis |first=Sean |date=8 April 1980 |title=Gall displays Reggie traits |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-gall-displays-reggie/156871882/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |page=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}

He reported on the 1980 United States presidential election from the American Embassy in London,{{Cite news |date=4 November 1980 |title=America Decides |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-america-decides-th/156872648/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |page=29 |via=Newspapers.com}} and the Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer from Knightsbridge Barracks in July 1981.{{Cite news |last=MacDonald |first=Keith |date=28 July 1981 |title=A guide to the wedding on TV |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/manchester-evening-news-a-guide-to-the-w/156873372/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Manchester Evening News |page=12 |via=Newspapers.com}} In November 1982, he presented the one-hour documentary Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines that took two months to produce as he and a film crew covered the inside the Soviet Union-occupied Afghanistan.{{Cite news |date=23 November 1982 |title=Sandy's 2 months with the Afghan rebels |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-sentinel-sandys-2-months-with-t/156881332/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Evening Sentinel |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |last=Austin |first=Tony |date=23 November 1982 |title=Sandy, the Afghan newshound |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-post-the-paper-for-wales-sandy-t/156880758/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Daily Post |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}} Gall was the subject of This is Your Life on 30 March 1983.{{Cite news |date=31 March 1983 |title=TV and radio guide |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/herald-express-sandy-gall-torquay-hera/156876404/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Torquay Herald Express |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}} The following year, he was a contestant on the Channel 4 travel-based quiz programme Where in the World.{{Cite news |date=17 March 1984 |title=Travelling cross channel |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/dorset-echo-travelling-cross-channel-d/156886245/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Dorset Echo |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=12 May 1984 |title=Revenge for Sandy and Kathie? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/south-wales-argus-revenge-for-sandy-and/156885120/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=South Wales Argus |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}} Gall reported on the Soviet–Afghan War in the documentary Allah Against the Gunships that was broadcast that October.{{Cite news |date=23 October 1984 |title=Allah against the Gunships |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-echo-allah-against-the-gunships/156883443/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Bournemouth Evening Echo |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |last=West |first=Roy |date=23 October 1984 |title=Sandy's Afghan scoop |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/liverpool-echo-sandys-afghan-scoop-li/156883548/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Liverpool Echo |page=17 |via=Newspapers.com}}

He was a team captain on the quiz show Television Scrabble in 1985.{{Cite news |date=29 July 1985 |title=Scrabble to find the right words |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/leicester-mercury-scrabble-to-find-the-r/156888010/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Leicester Mercury |page=8 |via=Newspapers.com}} In the year after, Gall narrated an ITN programme on Sarah, Duchess of York entitled A Royal Romance,{{Cite news |last=Mafham |first=Rowena |date=16 June 1986 |title=Now Fergie's on tape |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reading-evening-post-now-fergies-on-tap/156888834/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Reading Evening Post |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}} and spent three months filming the documentary Afghanistan; Agony of a Nation that was broadcast in November 1986 because he believed the Soviet-Afghan war was not being reported on correctly.{{Cite news |date=11 November 1986 |title=Russia's Vietnam |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/coventry-evening-telegraph-russias-viet/156889195/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Coventry Evening Telegraph |page=15 |via=Newspapers.com}} In 1988, he participated in BBC2's International Pro-Celebrity Golf competition,{{Cite news |date=17 May 1988 |title=Sandy in a bunker? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lincolnshire-echo-sandy-in-a-bunker-l/156892752/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Lincolnshire Echo |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}} and in the following year, presented the 1989 ITV documentary George Adamson: Lord of the Lions in which he interviewed the conservationist George Adamson.{{Cite news |last=Pope |first=Stephen |date=25 August 1989 |title=A lion among lions |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-independent-a-lion-among-lions-the/156862460/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=The Independent |page=29 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Gall made his final appearance as a newsreader on News at Ten on 4 January 1991;{{Cite news |date=5 January 1991 |title=Final farewell |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/cambridge-evening-news-final-farewell/156898162/ |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=Cambridge Evening News |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}} he returned to a special reporting role in the same month, covering Afghanistan, Africa, the Middle East and Pakistan.{{Cite news |date=5 November 1990 |title=Sandy Gall quits News at Ten for reporting job |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-sandy-gall-quits-t/156897943/ |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}} He made the decision to retire from ITN in late 1992.{{Cite news |date=19 September 1992 |title=Sands of time |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-sands-of-time-the/156923104/ |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |page=17 |via=Newspapers.com}} He has continued working in a freelance capacity in television and writing since 1993.{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=Sandy Gall |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1649560936/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=eea245b1 |url-access=subscription |access-date=9 October 2024 |website=The Writers Directory |via=Gale In Context: Biography}} In 1995, Gall wrote and presented the ITV documentary Network First: The Man Who Saved the Animals that profiled the conservationist Richard Leakey.{{Cite news |date=24 January 1995 |title=Why elephant man fell out of favour |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lincolnshire-echo-why-elephant-man-fell/156924137/ |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=Lincolnshire Echo |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}} That same year, he signed up to present the BBC Radio 4 travel programme Breakaway,{{Cite news |last=O'Carroll |first=Lisa |date=14 March 1995 |title=Intrepid Sandy set to break away on a new venture |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-sandy-new-venture-eve/156924400/ |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=Evening Standard |page=15 |via=Newspapers.com}} and the following year, he presented the BBC2 programme The Empty Quarter in which he toured the world's largest sand desert, the Rub' al Khali.{{Cite news |date=27 May 1996 |title=Desert adventure |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/birmingham-evening-mail-desert-adventure/156924957/ |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=Birmingham Evening Mail |page=15 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |last=Walker |first=Ian |date=27 May 1996 |title=I'll be watching |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/cambridge-evening-news-ill-be-watching/156925018/ |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=Cambridge Evening News |page=19 |via=Newspapers.com}}

In late 2002, Gall was signed by Channel 5 to present a week of special four-minute reports from Afghanistan on attempts to restore the Buddhas of Bamiyan that were destroyed by the Taliban.{{Cite news |last=Leonard |first=Tom |date=14 November 2002 |title=Old newshounds back on scent for Channel Five |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-old-newshounds-back/156937642/ |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |page=16 |via=Newspapers.com}} He presented a documentary examining the history of Afghanistan from Alexander the Great to the Taliban in the 2004 History Channel documentary Afghanistan: War Without End.{{Cite news |date=29 November 2004 |title=Multichannel: Afghanistan: War Without End |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-afghanistan-war-wit/156938997/ |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |page=25 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |last=Darke |first=Kimberley |date=29 November 2004 |title=Digital Highlights: Afghanistan: War Without End |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-afghanistan-war-withou/156939032/https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-afghanistan-war-withou/156939032/ |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=Evening Standard |page=64 |via=Newspapers.com}} Gall was the rector of the University of Aberdeen from 1978 to 1981, and in 1986, he and his wife founded Sandy Gall's Afghanistan Appeal charity to assist in the training of Afghan officials in the provision of artificial limbs and physiotherapy treatment to children and other Afghan civil war victims.{{Cite news |date=26 September 2012 |title=The television journalist, the Taliban and a bloody war with few winners |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/the-television-journalist-the-taliban-and-a-bloody-war-with-few-winners-1881812 |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=The Yorkshire Post}}{{Cite news |date=21 March 1999 |title=Bonino puts paid to Sandy Gall's charity |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-telegraph-bonino-puts-paid-to-san/156864395/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=The Sunday Telegraph |page=18 |via=Newspapers.com}} He became the World Affairs Expert on the London-based LBC radio station in January 2003.{{cite web |date=6 January 2003 |title=News veteran Gall makes radio return |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2632755.stm |access-date=15 November 2019 |website=BBC News |publisher=}}

He met the Foreign Office employee Eleanor Smyth in Budapest in 1956 while he was reporting on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.{{cite news |last=Willis |first=Peter |date=9 April 1973 |title=The news readers with the film star image |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/liverpool-echo-the-news-readers-with-the/156863395/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Liverpool Echo |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}} They were married from 29 August 1958 to her death on 9 September 2018.{{Cite news |date=15 September 2018 |title=Eleanor Mary Patricia Anne Gall |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/eleanor-gall-obituary?id=45576442 |access-date=9 October 2024 |work=Legacy.com}} They had four children, one of whom, Carlotta, is also a journalist.{{Cite news |date=26 January 2012 |title=Gall tells of his fury over treatment of journalist daughter |url=http://www.allmediascotland.com/broadcasting/20063/gall-tells-of-his-fury-over-treatment-of-journalist-daughter/ |access-date=9 October 2024 |work=AllMediaScotland}} They separated after he had a two-year affair with a younger woman but they later reconciled.{{Cite news |last=Hayward |first=Stephen |date=2 September 1992 |title=Sandy's ex-lover in hiding as affair ends |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/western-daily-press-newsmans-romance/156923507/ |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=Western Daily Press |page=10 |via=Newspapers.com}} In June 1972, Gall was injured in a car accident in Bromley, Kent and suffered facial cuts because he fell asleep while driving.{{Cite news |date=13 June 1972 |title=Sandy Gall Hurt |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-sandy-gall-hurt-th/156865192/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news |date=31 August 1972 |title=Sandy Gall feel asleep at the wheel |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-sandy-gall-feel-asleep/156865235/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Evening Standard |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}} He was fined £25 plus £1 costs.

In 1981, he was made an honorary Doctor of Law by the University of Aberdeen. Gall was awarded the Sitara-e-Pakistan in 1985 and the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal in 1986.{{cite web|url=https://rsaa.org.uk/awards/the-lawrence-of-arabia-award/|title=Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal Former Recipients|date=27 February 2014|publisher=Royal Society for Asian Affairs|access-date=15 November 2019|archive-date=15 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115211527/https://rsaa.org.uk/awards/the-lawrence-of-arabia-award/|url-status=dead}} He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1987.{{London Gazette |issue=51171 |date=31 December 1987 |page=7 |supp=y }} He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to the people of Afghanistan.{{London Gazette |issue=59647 |date=31 December 2010 |page=3 |supp=y }}

• Afghan Napoleon. The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud (2021), Haus Publishing, {{ISBN|978-1-913368-22-7}}{{Cite web |last=P Sempa |first=Francis |date=23 November 2021 |title="Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud" by Sandy Gall |url=https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/afghan-napoleon-the-life-of-ahmad-shah-massoud-by-sandy-gall/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |website=Asian Review of Books}}
• War Against the Taliban: Why It All Went Wrong (2012), Bloomsbury, {{ISBN|978-1-4088-0905-1}}{{Cite news |last=Coughlin |first=Con |date=2 February 2012 |title=War Against the Taliban by Sandy Gall: review |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9042196/War-Against-theTaliban-by-Sandy-Gall-review.html |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph}}
• The Bushmen of Southern Africa: Slaughter of the Innocent (July 2001), with Charles, Prince of Wales, Chatto and Windus, {{ISBN|0-7011-6906-0}}{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=JDF |date=16 July 2001 |title=The Bushmen's doom |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-the-bushmens-doom-ev/156865061/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Evening Standard |page=49 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• News From The Front: A Television Reporter's Life (Feb 1994), William Heinemann, {{ISBN|0-434-00087-6}}{{Cite news |last=Gott |first=Richard |date=12 February 1994 |title=Playing the Great Game with incredible Gall |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian-playing-the-great-game-with/156865012/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=The Guardian |page=29 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• George Adamson: Lord of the Lions (Nov 1991), Grafton, {{ISBN|0-246-13699-5}}{{Cite news |last=Stephenson |first=H. |date=13 November 1991 |title=Book Review |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/faversham-times-book-review-faversham/156864965/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Faversham Times |page=19}}
• Afghanistan: Travels with the Mujahideen (July 1989), New English Library Ltd, {{ISBN|0-450-50082-9}}{{Cite news |last=Dighton |first=Christopher |date=12 July 1989 |title=Old pro's view of tough war |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/birmingham-metronews-old-pros-view-of-t/156864932/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Birmingham Metronews |page=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• Salang (May 1989), The Bodley Head Ltd, {{ISBN|0-370-31309-7}}{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Pedr |date=25 June 1989 |title=Predictable plot and a dated conclusion |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/wales-on-sunday-predictable-plot-and-dat/156864852/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Wales on Sunday |via=Newspapers.com}}
• Afghanistan: Agony of a Nation (Feb 1988), with Margaret Thatcher, The Bodley Head Ltd, {{ISBN|0-370-31135-3}}{{Cite news |last=Bishop |first=Patrick |date=14 February 1988 |title=Afghan agony |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-telegraph-afghan-agony-the-sund/156864818/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=The Sunday Telegraph |page=16 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• Behind Russian Lines: An Afghan Journal (Sep 1983), Sidg. & J, {{ISBN|0-283-99039-2}}{{Cite news |last=Deedes |first=W. F. |date=30 September 1983 |title=Incurable reporter |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-behind-russian-lines/156864688/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |page=18 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• Don't Worry About the Money Now (March 1983), H Hamilton, {{ISBN|0-241-10959-0}}
• Chasing the Dragon (June 1981), Wm Collins & Sons & Co, {{ISBN|0-00-222125-X}}{{Cite news |last=Worsworth |first=Christopher |date=28 June 1981 |title=Crime Ration |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-observer-chasing-the-dragon-the-ob/156864566/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=The Observer |page=33 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• Gold Scoop (October 1977), Collins, {{ISBN|0-00-221355-9}}{{Cite news |last=Brien |first=Jeremy |date=3 November 1977 |title=A first from Sandy |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-post-a-first-from-sandy-bristo/156864509/ |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=Bristol Evening Post |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}

• {{cite web| author=Sandy Gall| title=Unlike Iraq, the Afghan war is winnable | work=The Independent| date=1 October 2006| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/sandy-gall-unlike-iraq-the-afghan-war-is-winnable-418237.html| accessdate=27 May 2011}}
• {{cite web| author=Sandy Gall| title=Blood and fear in Idi's jail| work=The Observer| date=17 August 2003| url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,,1020397,00.html| accessdate=27 May 2011}}
• {{cite web| author=Sandy Gall| title=When David took on Goliath| work=New Statesman| date=15 October 2001| url=http://www.newstatesman.com/200110150015| accessdate=27 May 2011}}

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• [http://www.sandygallsafghanistanappeal.org/ Sandy Gall's Afghanistan Appeal]
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