MILITARIA - Status Int

By Thomas Stokes, Melb (designer Julius Hogarth). Prince Alfred was the victim of an assassination attempt at Clontarf, Sydney on 12 March 1868. He received a slight wound from a undercharged pistol shot to the back from Henry James O'Farrell, an Irish miner from the Ballarat Gold Fields and a declared "Fenian" (Irish Republican). ................
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