Description
Commissioned to commemorate the Centenary of the Gordon Boys’ School. This school was established to become a national memorial for the Late General CG Gordon.
The cover’s artwork shows the last minutes of General Gordon, at Khartoum, as the troops of the Mahdi close in.
A 17ᵖ “Nigerian Clinic” commemorative stamp has been cancelled by the BFPS 1885 special handstamp
