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NFHS General Meeting
Tony Green of Nanaimo, BC – NFHS member
Tony will speak on “Letters from the Crimean War”
Title: A Midshipman at Crimea
Charles William Thomas Cookesley, aged just 15, was witness after the fact of the Charge of the Light Brigade. From Boulogne-sur-mer on the French seaside, this privileged Doctor’s son starred as a Midshipman in the Crimean War but failed on the Australian goldfields.
This is a Zoom only presentation