Name
Frank Mason Sharpin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/09/1918
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
391892
London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
15th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 29 Aug 1894 in Chelsea, London son of Robert May and Thirza Sharpin of 44 Broomhouse Road, Parson's Green, London.
Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1903-11, he became corresponding clerk of the Church Benefit Society, Westminster.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Jun 1915 formerly 5070, Private Queen Victoria’s Rifles 2nd/9th Bn. and entered France in Feb 1916.
He was wounded by shrapnel on 14 Jul 1917. On his recovery he transferred to the Civil Service Rifles and was killed in action by a shell near Peronne.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
