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Private Edgar Thompson SHARP, G/19678, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 10th September 1917, age 29.

Born Bedford, Bedfordshire, son of Charles Hawkins & Augusta Sharp, of Enfield Lock, Middlesex.

1911 Census - 29 Standard Road, Enfield Wash, Middlesex - Charles Hawkins Sharp, head, age 47, married, machinist (gun making), Government Factory, Royal Small Arms, War Department, worker, born Banbury, Oxford; Augusta Sharp, wife, age 48, married 24 years, 7 children, 5 still alive, born Biddenham, Bedfordshire; Edgar Thompson Sharp, son, age 23, single, machinist (gun making), Government Factory, Royal Small Arms, War Department, worker, born Bedford, Bedfordshire; Laura Elizabeth Sharp, daughter, age 16, single, machinist (electric lamps), Electric Lamp Works, worker, born Enfield, Middlesex; Evelyn Maud Sharp, daughter, age 14, school, born Enfield, Middlesex; Dora Beatrice Sharp, daughter, age 11, school, born Enfield, Middlesex.

16th September 1911, St James, Enfield Highway, Enfield, Middlesex, Edgar Thompson Sharp, age 23, bachelor, machinist, 29 Standard Road, Enfield Lock, father, Charles Hawkins Sharp, machinist, married Jessie Alice Steele, age 21, spinster, 27 Standard Road, Enfield Lock, father, Andrew Newton Steele, labourer R? E? P? F?

Children - Jessie Augusta Sharp, born 28th January 1912, Waltham Abbey, Essex; Violet Joyce Sharp, born 30th March 1914, Waltham Abbey, Essex; Edgar Charles Sharp, born 30th March 1914, Waltham Abbey, Essex.

Enlisted Epping, Essex, age 28 years & 5 months, height 5ft 5¾ inches.  Resided 87, Rounton Road, Waltham Abbey, Essex. Formerly munitions.

Home 6th June 1916 to 27th June 1917; BEF 28th June 1917 to 10th September 1917.

6th June 1916, enlisted; 6th June 1916, to Army Reserve; 6th January 1917, medical examination, age 29, cartridge maker, hazel eyes, pale complexion, height 5ft 5 inches, weight 130lbs, dental deficiency, most teeth are false; 18th April 1917, mobilized; 19th April 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, Service No.45363; 28th June 1917, Folkestone, embarked; 1st July 1917, 15 Infantry Base Depot; 1st July 1917, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st July 1917, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st July 1917, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 23rd July 1917, joined 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, In the Field.

6th May 1918, pension of 29/7 a week awarded to widow & three children.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Belgium.