After the war he continued to work as a broadcast reporter, and wrote a well-appreciated book about the liberation of Europe.

After working as a law clerk for only a few months, the outbreak of the Second World War led Wilmot to join the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

He reported from Papua during the Japanese invasion in 1942, including the Kokoda Track campaign, where he walked up to the forward area, around Abuari and Isurava, with fellow war correspondent Osmar White and cinematographer Damien Parer.

[1] There Wilmot wrote a book about his experiences in Tobruk, and narrated a documentary film called Sons of the ANZACs.

Wilmot was en route back to Britain from that assignment on BOAC Flight 781 when his plane, a Comet 1, broke up following explosive decompression over the Mediterranean Sea; all aboard were killed.