W. J. Sharp
Service no. 656082
Rifleman, London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles), 21st Battalion
Killed in action on 22 August 1918, aged 31
Born in Lambeth; enlisted at Camberwell; lived in Clapham
CWGC: “Husband of Grace Elizabeth Sharp, of 16 Paradise Road, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Norfolk Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt, France
Information from the 1911 census
Clapham-born William Sharp was a tram car driver, aged 24 in 1911. He lived with his widowed father, Joseph Sharp, 65, an unemployed coachman from Pimlico, in two rooms at 1 Northall Street, Stockwell.