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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 515

Pair: Dr. P. H. Sharp, Consultant Oculist to the Belgian Red Cross

Belgium, Order of the Crown, Chevalier's breast badge, silver and enamel; Medal of the Belgian Red Cross, very fine (2)

Percival Henry Sharp was born on 22 December 1891 and was educated at Manchester Grammar School from 1906 to 1909. Qualifying L.R.C.P. (London) in 1922, he lived and worked in Sheffield in the inter-war years. In this time, he published works on the common cold, indigestion and the pains of rheumatism. Awarded the Medal of the Belgian Red Cross on 29 May 1946 and the Chevalier of the Order of the Crown of Belgium on 9 March 1953, he later returned to London and resided at 3, Buckingham Palace Mansions, S.W.1.; sold with three original certificates relating to both awards, a Buckingham Palace permission to wear document to 'Percival Henry Sharp, Esquire, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.', dated 30 April 1953, and copied research.

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