A FAMOUS WAR CORRESPONDENT.
MEMORIAL AT ST. PAUL'S. (Pbess Absdciaiiqh.— Copxbiqht.) (Received February 10, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday. To-day Field' Marshal Wood unveils in tho crypt of Saint Paul's Cathedral Mackennal's rharble bust, of \Viiiiam Howard Russell, surmounting an inscribed tablet. The subscriptions totalled £500. (William Howard Russell, the first and most famous of "special correspondents," was born in County Dublin, IrelfnS, in March, 1821, and he joined the staff of "The Times" in 1843. He was through the Crimean war and the Indian Mutiny, the American Civil War, the war between Austria and Prussia, and the Franco-Prus-sian war, besides recording events during the Egyptian war, the Royal tour, etc.)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 10 February 1909, Page 3
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110A FAMOUS WAR CORRESPONDENT. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 10 February 1909, Page 3
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