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atsheaf Inn on Park Street. Two of Charles’ daughters,
Mary and Ellen, were also there and it seems likely that one of
these was the mother of James,
By 1901 James had left home and was living at Great Bowden,
near Market Harborough, and working as an assistant grocer.
On 14th September 1903 he married a Market Harborough girl,
Mabel Francis Coleman, and their first child, Gladys May, was
born in July of the next year. Two further girls arrived in 1911
and 1915, and, in 1917, a son, James, who unfortunately died
when he was just four weeks old.
James volunteered just before the draft started but was on the
reserve until he was eventually mobilised in May 1917. This
was just days before his baby son died.
In June of that year he sailed across to France and then went
overland to Marseille, en route to Egypt. He was in Egypt for a
month and then sailed to Basra where he spent the rest of the war.
He was in the motor transport part of the RASC, so was no
doubt involved in Allenby’s successful campaign to push the
Turks out of the Middle East.
He returned to England, via India, in 1919 and was demobbed
in July 1919.
SHARPE James William
Private 1946 1st Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps
Born in 1883/4, James was the son of Herbert and Emma
Sharpe who lived in West Street, Kings Cliffe.
Herbert and his father before him, James Sharpe, had lived all
of their lives in Kings Cliffe.
There is a birth for James registered at Oundle in 1883 but his
army records, when he joined up as a 15-year-old, suggest he
was actually born in 1884.
Around 1886 the family moved to Glatton, Hunts.
On the 26th May 1899 James presented himself at Colchester
and joined the Kings Royal Rifle Corps as a bugler. He declared
his age to be 15 years and 2 months. He said that he already
belonged to the 5th Battalion KRRC (Militia).
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Mary and Ellen, were also there and it seems likely that one of
these was the mother of James,
By 1901 James had left home and was living at Great Bowden,
near Market Harborough, and working as an assistant grocer.
On 14th September 1903 he married a Market Harborough girl,
Mabel Francis Coleman, and their first child, Gladys May, was
born in July of the next year. Two further girls arrived in 1911
and 1915, and, in 1917, a son, James, who unfortunately died
when he was just four weeks old.
James volunteered just before the draft started but was on the
reserve until he was eventually mobilised in May 1917. This
was just days before his baby son died.
In June of that year he sailed across to France and then went
overland to Marseille, en route to Egypt. He was in Egypt for a
month and then sailed to Basra where he spent the rest of the war.
He was in the motor transport part of the RASC, so was no
doubt involved in Allenby’s successful campaign to push the
Turks out of the Middle East.
He returned to England, via India, in 1919 and was demobbed
in July 1919.
SHARPE James William
Private 1946 1st Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps
Born in 1883/4, James was the son of Herbert and Emma
Sharpe who lived in West Street, Kings Cliffe.
Herbert and his father before him, James Sharpe, had lived all
of their lives in Kings Cliffe.
There is a birth for James registered at Oundle in 1883 but his
army records, when he joined up as a 15-year-old, suggest he
was actually born in 1884.
Around 1886 the family moved to Glatton, Hunts.
On the 26th May 1899 James presented himself at Colchester
and joined the Kings Royal Rifle Corps as a bugler. He declared
his age to be 15 years and 2 months. He said that he already
belonged to the 5th Battalion KRRC (Militia).
192
