Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (C. H. Cook, Ch. Cook, H.M.S. Monarch) contact wear, edge bruising and polished, thus fine £30-40

Charles Henry Cook was born in Hampshire in November 1865 and entered the Royal Navy as an Acting Cook’s Mate 2nd Class in June 1888. Assorted shore and seagoing appointments followed, among them a tour off the Cape in H.M.S. Monarch between June 1900 and December 1902, and he was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in November 1903 in the rate of Chief Cook. Having been invalided with rheumatism in September 1908, Cook was recalled in December 1914 and served at Victory I until February 1918, when he was again invalided from the Service.