Fascinating relics from captain killed at Trafalgar come to auction
A musket ball-riddled handkerchief of a Royal Navy captain cut down at the Battle of Trafalgar stood out at a London sale, but it was a letter to his eight-year-old daughter also retrieved from his pocket that added a particularly poignant touch.
They were part of a group of documents and effects relating to Captain John Cooke (1762-1805), comm…