Harold Fawcus would serve with the corps from 1900 to 1934, serving in the Second Boer War, the First World War and the Third Anglo-Afghan War, for which he was highly decorated.
27 Facts About Harold Fawcus
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The son of John Harold Fawcus, he was born at South Charlton in Northumberland.
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Harold Fawcus was educated at Durham College, before studying medicine at the Durham University College of Medicine.
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Harold Fawcus served in the Second Boer War, taking part in operations in Natal, Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal Colony.
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Harold Fawcus was awarded both the Queen's South Africa Medal and the King's South Africa Medal.
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Harold Fawcus was promoted to the rank of captain in May 1903, and obtained a diploma in public health in 1905.
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Harold Fawcus had played his final minor counties matches for Northumberland in 1906.
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Harold Fawcus appeared for Orange Free State on five more occasions during the competition, scoring 184 runs with a high score of 48, while taking 33 wickets with his right-arm medium pace, with his 33 wickets costing 12.72 apiece.
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Harold Fawcus was promoted to the rank of major in May 1911, Harold Fawcus was appointed to the position of Deputy Assistant Professor of Hygiene at the Royal Army Medical College, a role he undertook from 1912 to 1914.
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Harold Fawcus was appointed to the Army School of Sanitation at Aldershot Garrison prior to the First World War.
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Harold Fawcus served during the war and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in March 1915.
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Harold Fawcus was made a member of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1915 Birthday Honours.
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Harold Fawcus was made a temporary colonel in April 1917.
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Harold Fawcus awarded the Croix de guerre by France in June 1917.
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Harold Fawcus was appointed as the honorary physician to George V in January 1923, following the retirement of Sir Alfred Blenkinsop.
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Harold Fawcus was promoted to the full rank of colonel in June 1926, with appointment in the same month as a deputy director-general at the War Office.
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Harold Fawcus was promoted to the rank of major-general in October 1926.
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Harold Fawcus was appointed as the director-general of Army Medical Services in September 1929, at which point he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general.
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Harold Fawcus was made a member of the Order of the Bath in the 1931 New Year Honours.
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Harold Fawcus was presented with an honorary degree in civil law by Durham University in 1930.
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Harold Fawcus served as the director-general of Army Medical Services until his retirement from active service in March 1934.
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Harold Fawcus became the director-general of the British Red Cross in 1934, a position he would hold until 1938.
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Harold Fawcus was appointed as the colonel commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps in December 1938, a ceremonial role he would hold until he relinquished it in August 1941 on account of ill health.
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Harold Fawcus was instrumental in developing professional opportunities for Royal Army Medical Corps personal and in revising the status of the Royal Army Medical College, both endeavours he self-funded at no cost to the state.
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Harold Fawcus was a commissioner for the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
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Harold Fawcus presided over the Duke-Fingard Inhalation Treatment Centre in Kensington, where he sought to make advancements in the treatment of asthma.
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Harold Fawcus died at the age of 71 at Hillingdon in October 1947, with his funeral service carried out in the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks.