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4 unusual facts about Clonard Keating


Clonard Keating

In Halifax, on Arbor Day, 8 May 1899, the teachers and pupils of Morris Street School, Keatings alma-mater, planted a tree in his memory in the Halifax Public Gardens.

When it came time to return to Lafagu, on October 9, Keating went with 14 of his troops to the island village of Hela, near Yelwa, for additional canoes.

Keating had 22 men from which to command a sixty mile district from Lafagu, Nigeria to Rofia and Illah.

Keating’s body was eventually recovered.and buried in the new British fort at Yelwa, a half mile away from Hela.



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