Name
Ralph Sharp
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/07/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14098
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Royston Town War Memorial
Pre War
Son of Alice Mary Sharp, of 41, Gower Rd., Royston, Herts, and the late Stephen Sharp.
Wartime Service
Ralph was posted to France on the 12th May 1915. He was killed in an attack on Longueval during the Battle of the Somme and while a stretcher bearer. The battalion suffered many casualties due to heavy gas shelling at the assembly trenches and during their advance.
The family learnt if his death in early August.
Additional Information
The family suffered much; the eldest son, Hubert, serving in the Wiltshire Regiment was severely wounded and both legs were amputated a few weeks after Ralph's death, and by November their youngest son, Fred, a Lance Corporal in the Sussex Regiment - after transferring from the Hertfordshires, was in England suffering from shell shock and pneumonia.
Acknowledgments
Paul Johnson
