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Books With the Cossacks: Being the, Italy's War for a Desert: B, A Prisoner of the Reds - the, With the Cossacks Being the, Revised List of Arbitratio Similar People William Jennings Bryan, Edward Grey - 1st Viscount, Edwin Ginn, William Makepeace Thackeray, David Josiah Brewer | ||
John Francis McCullagh Stunt Reel
Francis McCullagh (1874 – 26 November 1956) was a British journalist, war correspondent, and author.
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- John Francis McCullagh Stunt Reel
- B4A 010 A Passion For Filmmaking wJohn Francis McCullagh
- Career overview
- Works
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B4A 010 - A Passion For Filmmaking. w/John Francis McCullagh
Career overview
McCullagh was born in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, in 1874. He began his journalism career as a staff reporter at the Glasgow Observer (later Scottish Catholic Observer), and would continue writing for the newspaper through 1906-1937. From 1898, he was a correspondent for the New York Herald. In 1903, he was living in Japan, working for the English-language newspaper The Japan Times. Observing the growing tension between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire, he studied the Russian language. In 1904, he moved to Port Arthur, the major Russian military base in Manchuria, obtaining a post as a correspondent for the Novi Kraï (New Land) newspaper of Port Arthur. At the start of the Russo-Japanese War, he became a non-military observer embedded within the Imperial Russian Army. In March 1905, he was evacuated as a prisoner of war, traveling from Dalny to Ujina on the Nippon Yusen liner Awa Maru. His experiences were published in 1906 as With the Cossacks: Being the Story of an Irishman Who Rode With the Cossacks Throughout the Russo-Japanese War.
He subsequently returned to Russia to cover the 1918-1922 Siberian Intervention during the Russian Civil War. At one point, the Bolshevik Red Army captured him.
In 1937, he covered the Spanish Civil War.
McCullagh died in White Plains, New York in 1956.