No.3/9607, Company Sgt Major, Charles SHARPE
Aged 47
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Born in Wokingham in 1868 (3rd qtr 1868 Wokingham 2c:364) son of Stephen and Sarah Blanche SHARPE (née CHAPLIN)
1871 census...Aged 2, he was at Honey Hill, Wokingham with his father Stephen SHARP [36], labourer born Walthan St.Lawrence, Berks; his mother Sarah [35] born Eversley, Hants; brothers William Stephen [13], Frank [10], and Edwin George [7]; sisters Alice [11], Emily [8], Sarah [5] and Lizzie {1] born Wokingham. All the children except Charles and Lizzie were born in Waltham St.Lawrence. 1881 census...Aged 12, he was in Sandhurst with his parents, sisters Alice, Sarah, Lizzie, and Kathleen [7] born Wokingham; brothers Frank (farm labourer), Edwin G (shoemaker's apprentice), Alfred [9] born Wokingham, Frederick [6] and Arthur [3] both born Sandhurst. 1891 census...Aged 22, not found in this census, he had enlisted in the Army in 1888. The family were at 1 Paules Cottages, Owlsmoor, Sandhurst. Next door at No 2 were the HODDER family including 12 year old Flora 1901 census...Aged 32 he would have been in South Africa. His parents and brothers Frank, Edwin and Arthur were still at Owlsmoor. He married Gibraltar born Flora HODDER [23-2-1879] in 4th qtr 1904 in Easthampstead. 1911 census...Aged 42, a Colour Sergeant in the Army, he was at 77 Queens Road, Bury St.Edmunds with his wife Flora and three children, Charles Arthur [1-1-1906], Kathleen Flora [6-7-1907], Phyllis Elsie [12-12-1909] They went on to have two more children, Irene May [7-1-1012] and Stephen Plewman [23-7-1915] Their address was 77 Queens Road, Bury St.Edmunds |
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He finished his engagement in the Army in September 1911, then re-enlisted in Bury St.Edmunds in 1914.
No.58 Casualty Clearing Station (West Riding C.C.S.) was at Lillers from October 1915 until 1918. Usually with no service record and dying of wounds it is impossible to say where and when a man was wounded, but in this case Lt Col Murphy's "History of the Suffolk Regiment" records that the Suffolks, having taken the Hairpin at HULLUCH, repulsed a German counter attack from the QUARRIES on the 19th, when CSM Sharpe was one of the wounded.
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