Lot Archive

Lot

№ 377

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2 July 2003

Hammer Price:
£310

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Nigeria 1918 (W. C. O’Keeffe) officially impressed later issue with fixed suspension, extremely fine £150-200

William Cornelius O’Keeffe was a Medical Officer in the Southern Provinces of Nigeria and is recorded on the appropriate roll as having served outside his normal duties and having been ‘under fire’.

O’Keeffe was onetime Resident Medical Officer at Cork District Hospital.