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Mr J K Ackaa of Nigeria is a male nurse student at Queen Marys Hospital, Sidcup, Kent

Mr J K Ackaa of Nigeria is a male nurse student at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent. Since he and a fellow countrymean were enrolled thousands of other applications have been received by the matron from other would-be male nurses, buit they have all been refused owing to lack of vacancies. He is very popular among the child patients - and is seen with 11 year old Elizabeth Harrowden of Sidcup
9th March 1956

© John Topham / TopFoto

Queen Elizabeth II inspecting the 2nd Battalion Nigeria Regi

Photograph of Queen Elizabeth II inspecting the 2nd Bn Nigeria Regiment, 29 Jan 1956.From an album of 141 photographs and ephemera, including 8 loose photographs, Depot, Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own), 1947-1957.After the Queen?s visit, the regiment was renamed the Queen?s Own Nigeria Regiment in her honour. Date: 1956

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library

Harry Rawson

Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson (1843 1910), chiefly remembered for overseeing the British Benin Expedition of 1897 that burned and looted the city of the Kingdom of Benin, now in Nigeria. No shame was attached to the event at the time, which amounted to a punitive expedition, and Admiral Rawson was appointed Governor of New South Wales, 27 May 1902 27 May 1909. Date: 1901

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