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• afrikka
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• somalia
• 1927
• zoology
• 1896

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• Liberas 19 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 15 photos & illustrations
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• The Library of Congress 6 photos & illustrations
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Surgeon Major Parke, I presume!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 31 older comments, and then…
• DannyM8 said:

  Parke was born in 1857 at Clogher House[2] in Kilmore, County Roscommon, Ireland, and was brought up in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim. He graduated from the College of Surgeons in Dublin and was appointed to a post in Ballybay, County Monaghan. In 1881 he joined the British Army and served in Egypt[1] as a surgeon. Parke fought to Khartoum in relief of General Gordon in 1885 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Heazle_Parke

• DannyM8 said:

  Parke campaigned with Henry Morton Stanley on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. This expedition lasted three years and many were saved from death by Parke's courage and medical skills. He was known as the ' man who had saved Stanley'.[3] He thus became the first Irishman to cross the African continent. During the expedition Parke bought a pygmy girl. They travelled together for over a year and she nursed him through malaria. In the end he was forced to leave her behind because her eyes could not adapt to sunlight after the darkness of the forest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Heazle_Parke

• DannyM8 said:

  maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,716361,733649,7,9

• O Mac said:

  Sculptor, Percy Guy Wood. ..erected 1896.

• DannyM8 said:

  Street view in all his current glory - maps.google.ie/maps?q=kildare+street+Dublin&hl=en&...

Preparing the remains of a rhinoceros and a marabu bird. Camp in the background. ; Photograph 2.

from Gallen-Kallelan Museo

• Seedballs Kenya said:

  wow they really shot everything for fun once

190824-N-TD490-0253

from Navy Medicine

• k said:

  WOW!!!