Name
F A Sharp
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
The name F A Sharp appears on the Hitchin Town Memorial and the Memorial Book, in St Mary’s Church, Hitchin. The latter generally reflects the entries that exist on any other Hitchin memorial.
According to the Lawson Thompson Scrapbooks (held in Hitchin Museum) he was in the 2nd Battalion according to the, but he is not mentioned anywhere in the ‘Soldiers died’ database as having been born, enlisting or residing in Hitchin and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has no ‘F.A. Sharp’ in their records which suggests that he may have died after having been discharged from service.
A newspaper report mentions an F. Sharp having been recruited into a Bantam Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers but again there is no mention of him in the Regimental volume of ‘Soldiers rued’. Paul Johnson records him as a Private in the Royal Fusiliers and that he was a prisoner of war in April/May 1918.
A record was found for a John Alfred Sharp whose initials in handwritten document looked like ‘F A’. We thought that perhaps this was him, and that he died shortly after the war, however research showed him to be alive in 1921 and is fact he died in 1947. So he is not the man on the memorial – his biography has been included as a survivor.
As yet we cannot identify the F A Sharp on the memorial so any information that might help would be appreciated.
Additional Information
Not listed in the CWGC records.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
