Ralph Sharp

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

Not Researched

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 the12th 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