Special Collections

Sold between 2 March & 1 December 2004

2 parts

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Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee

Oliver Stirling Lee

Lot

№ 167

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1 December 2004

Hammer Price:
£160

Pair: Warrant Schoolmaster H. W. Sharp, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals
(Wt. Schlmr., R.N.), extremely fine (2) £60-80

Henry William Sharp was born at Loughton, Essex in October 1885 and entered the Royal Navy as a Naval Schoolmaster in May 1910. He subsequently served at various shore establishments up until his advancement to Warrant Schoolmaster in November 1917, following which he is believed to have served at sea in the battleship H.M.S. Revenge. Discharged in 1922, he became a teacher, and later Headmaster, at Church Street School, Gravesend, and finally retired in 1945.