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is buried at Bethune Town Cemetery grave 1V.A.82
The army’s records department go into action on his death and
we learn –
Father – Herbert Sharpe, St Germaine, Huntingdon.
Mother – Emily Sharpe.
Wife – Rose Sharpe, 13, St Margaret’s Road, Stilton,
Peterborough. (NB This may be her parents address as a form
in June says her address is c/o a Mrs Stephens in Aldershot.)
In September the War Office informed Rose that she has been
granted a pension of 20/6d (£1.02) a week to support herself
and her three children.
In mid-1917 Rose remarried to another soldier, Bombardier
William Pelling, who was also stationed near Gosport. William
Pelling was presumably on leave from France when the wedding
took place, as he was also killed in France on 5th July 1917,
when he and Rose could only have been married for weeks.
By 1919 Rose was living at Goldsborough Road, Wandsworth.
In 1921 she was living at Lewes Road, Brighton, but the children
were no longer with her.
The two boys were at an orphanage in Cheshire and her
daughter, Florence, now 13, at a school at Hampstead. This
only serves to emphasize that the tragedies of war do not stop
with the soldiers!
SHARPE John William
Private 23802 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment
Born in 1893 in Kings Cliffe, John was the son of John and
Sarah Sharpe, who lived on West Street, Kings Cliffe, and was
the brother of William Levi Sharpe.
By 1911 the family had moved to Yarwell, but John was no
longer with them. He was working in London for Cook Son &
Co and living in accommodation provided by the company at
Bennett Street, Blackfriars.
Three of his pals from Kings Cliffe were also there in 1911 –
Frank Stanger, Harry Sharpe, and Thomas Ewart Green. Only
one of the four will survive the coming war.
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The army’s records department go into action on his death and
we learn –
Father – Herbert Sharpe, St Germaine, Huntingdon.
Mother – Emily Sharpe.
Wife – Rose Sharpe, 13, St Margaret’s Road, Stilton,
Peterborough. (NB This may be her parents address as a form
in June says her address is c/o a Mrs Stephens in Aldershot.)
In September the War Office informed Rose that she has been
granted a pension of 20/6d (£1.02) a week to support herself
and her three children.
In mid-1917 Rose remarried to another soldier, Bombardier
William Pelling, who was also stationed near Gosport. William
Pelling was presumably on leave from France when the wedding
took place, as he was also killed in France on 5th July 1917,
when he and Rose could only have been married for weeks.
By 1919 Rose was living at Goldsborough Road, Wandsworth.
In 1921 she was living at Lewes Road, Brighton, but the children
were no longer with her.
The two boys were at an orphanage in Cheshire and her
daughter, Florence, now 13, at a school at Hampstead. This
only serves to emphasize that the tragedies of war do not stop
with the soldiers!
SHARPE John William
Private 23802 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment
Born in 1893 in Kings Cliffe, John was the son of John and
Sarah Sharpe, who lived on West Street, Kings Cliffe, and was
the brother of William Levi Sharpe.
By 1911 the family had moved to Yarwell, but John was no
longer with them. He was working in London for Cook Son &
Co and living in accommodation provided by the company at
Bennett Street, Blackfriars.
Three of his pals from Kings Cliffe were also there in 1911 –
Frank Stanger, Harry Sharpe, and Thomas Ewart Green. Only
one of the four will survive the coming war.
195
