Name
Henry Sharpe
4/02/1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/05/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
72408
Royal Field Artillery
10th Bty.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ
VIII. D. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Christ Church (formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial Waltham Cross. Not on the Colliers End Memorial, Not on the Standon Memorials
Pre War
Henry Sharp was born on 4th February 1896, in Colliers End, Hertfordshire, son of George Sharp a Bricklayers Labourer and Elizabeth Sharp (nee Lee). The 8th of nine children although two died in infancy.
He was Baptised on 15th March 1896, in the Parish of High Cross, Herts, at the time the family were living in Colliers End, Herts.
1901 Census records Henry aged 5, living with his parents, brothers William (11) and Albert (7), at 1 Cracknell Cottages, Grove Road West, Enfield, Middx.
1911 Census, Henry aged 15, is working as a General Labourer, living with his parents, at 4 Cottage Gardens, Waltham Cross, Herts.
Henry enlisted abt. 1913, at Mill Hill, London, Joining the Royal Field Artillery, issued with the service number 72408.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war, Henry was a serving soldier with the Royal Field Artillery, arriving in France on 16th August 1914, seeing action on the Western Front, he was Killed in Action on 27th May 1916.
Initially buried in Ablain St. Nazaire Military Cemetery, later reburied in Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France.
Additional Information
His effects of £24-1s-5d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £10, went to his mother Elizabeth Sharp.
The Holy Trinity Church Memorial in Waltham Cross give the year of death as 1917.
His older brother Private 9437 Albert Sharp of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry was Killed in Action on 21st November 1914.
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, Pat Bird
