Three: Chief Petty Officer J. E. Cooke, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (158480 J. E. Cooke. C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (158480 J. E. Cooke, P.O. 1 Cl, H.M.S. Victory.); together with a Royal Navy Temperance Society Medal, very fine (4) £80-£100

Joseph Ellis Cooke was born in Knightsbridge on 7 April 1875, entering naval service on 23 February 1891 as a Boy 2nd Class. Promoted to Petty Officer 1st Class on 28 November 1900, while serving in H.M.S. Excellent, he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. on 10 February 1908. Cooke was promoted to Chief Petty Officer on 30 April 1912 in H.M.S. Achilles, and was serving in Victory I on the outbreak of war, later seeing service in H.M. Ships Excellent and Hermoine during the war, before he joined the Royal Fleet Reserve on demobilisation.