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Lieutenant William Frederick Nelson Sharpe

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Military service

Age: 22
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Flying Corps
Division: 1st Battalion, Canadian Contingent
Birth: Prescott, Ontario
Enlistment: Ontario
Death: February 4, 1915 Shoreham, England

Burial/memorial information

PRESCOTT (SANDY HILL) CEMETERY
Grave reference: Section 10, Block 5, Lot 4, Grave B.
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Son of Frederick Charles and Ida (née Bell) Sharpe. Husband of Alma K. Sharpe of Prescott, Ontario. Lt. W.F. Sharpe was the first Canadian military aviator to give his life in the Great War.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 602 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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PRESCOTT (SANDY HILL) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada

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