Nanaimo Family History Society January Meeting

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Monday, January 20th, 2025
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Tony Green of Nanaimo, BC – NFHS member. Tony will speak on “A Midshipman at Crimea, Letters from the Crimean War”

Tony found a genealogical motherlode. Through his research Tony discovered letters written during the time of the Crimean War by his ancestor, Charles William Thomas Cookesley.

Aged just 15, Cookesley was a 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. His letters give us a first person view of the war from someone who served.

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