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Digital Benin Research
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BG_ARM_7_1_1 (20)
Date
04.04.1997
Description
Letter from Thorold Masefield, British High Commissioner to Nigeria, to the Oba of Benin on his attendance at the Centernary events. ‘I was glad too that we were able to contribute both to the restoration of the site where Captain Phillips and his colleagues were killed and to the rededication of their tomb, with a new plaque to mark the occasion’.