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Three: Deputy Assistant Commissary General A. F. Cookesley, Commissariat Department, who died in China having served with Major Gordon’s Anglo-Chinese Contingent
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (A. F. Cookesley. Depy. Asst. Comy. General) Hunt & Roskell style engraved naming; China 1857-60, no clasp (D. Ast. Comy. Genl. A. F. Cookesley.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, fitted with rings for suspension, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, very fine (3) £1,000-£1,400
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Augustus Foulkes Cookesley was appointed Deputy Assistant Commissary General on 1 January 1855. He served with the Head Quarters of the army throughout the Eastern campaign of 1854-55, including the battles of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkermann, and siege of Sebastopol (Medal and four Clasps, and Turkish Medal). He afterwards served on the Cape of Good Hope and China stations, where he was at the taking of Pekin; and finally joined Anglo-Chinese contingent under Major Gordon [later ‘Chinese Gordon’ of Khartoum fame]. He died suddenly of Asiatic cholera at Quinsan, China, on 16 July 1863, aged 30, and is buried in Shantung Road Cemetery. He was the son of the Rev. W. G. Cookesley, Incumbent of St Peter’s, Hammersmith.
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (A. F. Cookesley. Depy. Asst. Comy. General) Hunt & Roskell style engraved naming; China 1857-60, no clasp (D. Ast. Comy. Genl. A. F. Cookesley.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, fitted with rings for suspension, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, very fine (3) £1,000-£1,400
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Augustus Foulkes Cookesley was appointed Deputy Assistant Commissary General on 1 January 1855. He served with the Head Quarters of the army throughout the Eastern campaign of 1854-55, including the battles of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkermann, and siege of Sebastopol (Medal and four Clasps, and Turkish Medal). He afterwards served on the Cape of Good Hope and China stations, where he was at the taking of Pekin; and finally joined Anglo-Chinese contingent under Major Gordon [later ‘Chinese Gordon’ of Khartoum fame]. He died suddenly of Asiatic cholera at Quinsan, China, on 16 July 1863, aged 30, and is buried in Shantung Road Cemetery. He was the son of the Rev. W. G. Cookesley, Incumbent of St Peter’s, Hammersmith.
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Three: Deputy Assistant Commissary General A. F. Cookesley, Commissariat Department, who died in China having served with Major Gordon’s Anglo-Chinese Contingent
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (A. F. Cookesley. Depy. Asst. Comy. General) Hunt & Roskell style engraved naming; China 1857-60, no clasp (D. Ast. Comy. Genl. A. F. Cookesley.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, fitted with rings for suspension, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, very fine (3) £1,000-£1,400
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Augustus Foulkes Cookesley was appointed Deputy Assistant Commissary General on 1 January 1855. He served with the Head Quarters of the army throughout the Eastern campaign of 1854-55, including the battles of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkermann, and siege of Sebastopol (Medal and four Clasps, and Turkish Medal). He afterwards served on the Cape of Good Hope and China stations, where he was at the taking of Pekin; and finally joined Anglo-Chinese contingent under Major Gordon [later ‘Chinese Gordon’ of Khartoum fame]. He died suddenly of Asiatic cholera at Quinsan, China, on 16 July 1863, aged 30, and is buried in Shantung Road Cemetery. He was the son of the Rev. W. G. Cookesley, Incumbent of St Peter’s, Hammersmith.
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (A. F. Cookesley. Depy. Asst. Comy. General) Hunt & Roskell style engraved naming; China 1857-60, no clasp (D. Ast. Comy. Genl. A. F. Cookesley.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, fitted with rings for suspension, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, very fine (3) £1,000-£1,400
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Augustus Foulkes Cookesley was appointed Deputy Assistant Commissary General on 1 January 1855. He served with the Head Quarters of the army throughout the Eastern campaign of 1854-55, including the battles of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkermann, and siege of Sebastopol (Medal and four Clasps, and Turkish Medal). He afterwards served on the Cape of Good Hope and China stations, where he was at the taking of Pekin; and finally joined Anglo-Chinese contingent under Major Gordon [later ‘Chinese Gordon’ of Khartoum fame]. He died suddenly of Asiatic cholera at Quinsan, China, on 16 July 1863, aged 30, and is buried in Shantung Road Cemetery. He was the son of the Rev. W. G. Cookesley, Incumbent of St Peter’s, Hammersmith.
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