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In memory of:

Gunner George Platts Sharpe

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Military service

Service number: 85784
Age: 23
Rank: Gunner
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Field Artillery
Division: 2nd Bde.
Death: November 14, 1916

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. F. 30.
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Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Sharp, of Ibstock, nr. Leicester, England.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 161 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

Contay is a village in the Department of the Somme on the main road, Amiens to Arras. The CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY lies on the left (north east) side of the road to Franvillers. There are no access problems. There is a CWGC road sign next to the church and square of the village and next to the D23, Franvillers - Corbie, sign. The distance from the CWGC sign to the Cemetery is approximately 650 metres.

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