Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Deputy Assistant Commissary General A. F. Cookesley, Commissariat Department

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

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 Major Gordon’s Anglo-Chinese contingent. He died suddenly of Asiatic cholera at Quinsan, China, on 16 July 1863, aged 30, and is buried in Shantung Road Cemetery.