Name
Albert James Sharpe
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
113396
Army Service Corps
234th Company Motor Transport Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Albert was only revealed during the search service records for Pirton soldiers. He lived in one of the Wellbury Cottages on the Hexton Road which were in the Parish of Pirton.
He was born in West Hill, Wandsworth and had married Pirton born Louisa Weston on April 13th 1903 in Pirton. They had obviously lived in various parts of the country as their first born child Harold Albert was born in Southfields, and the next two, Dorothy Mary (b 1907) and John Edward (b 1909), were born in Tisbury, Dorset (now Wiltshire).
By 1915, he was working as a chauffeur and living in one of the Wellbury Cottages. He signed his attestation papers on April 24th 1915, aged thirty-nine. His previous work made him suitable for the Motor Transport Corps (MTC) section of the Army Service Corps (ASC) and he joined the 234th Company, MTC as Private 113396. He is listed as on home service until December 19th 1915, when he joined the 338th Company, and then served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Salonika until March 11th 1919. He arrived back in England on the 29th but was not demobilised until April 24th.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
