Name
Albert Sharpe
13/07/1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/11/1914
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
9437
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 20.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Christ Church (formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial Waltham Cross, Not on the Colliers End Memorial
Pre War
Albert Sharp was born 13th July 1893, in Colliers End, Hertfordshire, son of George Sharp a Bricklayers Labourer and Elizabeth Sharp (nee Lee). The 7th of nine children although two died in infancy.
He was Baptised on 17th September 1893, in the Parish of High Cross, Herts, at the time the family were living in Colliers End, Herts.
1901 Census records Albert aged 7, living with his parents, brothers William (11) and Harry (5), at 1 Cracknell Cottages Grove Road west, Enfield, Middx.
In 1910, Albert travelled to Winchester, Hants, to enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, issued with the service number 9437.
1911 Census records Albert, aged 18, Single and a Private in the 1st battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, stationed at Gravesend Barrack and Military Hospital, Gravesend, Kent.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war Albert was serving with the 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s light infantry stationed at the Curragh in Ireland, they were mobilized for war and proceeded to France, landing at Le Havre in late August 1914. They were in action at the Battles of Mons and the retreat, The Battles of Le Cateau, the Marne, the Aisne, Le Bassee and Messines, Albert was Killed in Action on 21st November 1914, during the First Battle of Ypres (19th October – 30th November 1914) he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium.
Additional Information
His effects of £8-10s-11d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £5, went to his mother Elizabeth Sharp.
The Holy Trinity Church Memorial in Waltham Cross gives the year of death as 1916.
His younger brother Gunner 72408 Henry Sharp of the Royal Field Artillery was Killed in Action on 27th May 1916.
His eldest brother Corporal 1442/3512281 William Sharp of the Manchester Regiment survived the war, serving with the Manchester Regiment from 1908 to his discharge in 1920.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
