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Military service
Service number:
152674
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
August 21, 1895
Cambridgeshire, England
Enlistment:
October 18, 1915
Brandon, Manitoba
Death:
September 25, 1916
France
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Additional information
Son of Edgar and Alice Sharp of Newmarket, England.
Digital gallery of Private William James Sharpe
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private William James Sharpe
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 161 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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