PREVIOUS SERVICE – 88th Senior Cadets Perth WA
30/09/1914- Completed Medical Examination Day Dawn WA
3/10/1914- Joined 1st Reinforcements 11th Battalion Blackboy Hill WA as Private
22/12/1914- Embarked Fremantle WA aboard ” Themistocles ” bound for Egypt
20/01/1915- Disembarked Alexandria ex Australia to Overseas Training Base
10/02/1915- Joined 11th Battalion Mena Cairo Egypt
2/03/1915- Embarked Alexandria with Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces bound for Gallipoli Peninsula
5/08/1915- Admitted 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station Gallipoli ( Dysentery )
6/08/1915- Evacuated/Admitted 16th Stationary Hospital Mudros ex 24th Casualty Clearing Station
15/09/1915- Discharged to Australian & New Zealand Base Mudros ex Hospital
25/10/1915- To Essex Garrison Regiment Mudros
14/11/1915- Transferred to 3rd Australian General Hospital Egypt
11/01/1916- Joined 54th Division Base Depot Mustapha Egypt
16/01/1916- Rejoined 11th Battalion in the field Tel-el-Kebir Egypt
1/03/1916- Transferred 51st Battalion Serapeum Egypt
9/04/1916- Appointed Lance Corporal Serapeum
15/04/1916- Admitted 1st Australian Stationary Hospital Ismailia Egypt ( Myalgia )
19/04/1916- Rejoined 51st Battalion in the field ex Hospital
25/05/1916- Promoted Corporal Railhead Egypt
5/06/1916- Embarked Alexandria with British Expeditionary Forces bound for Marseilles France
12/06/1916- Disembarked Marseilles
5/07/1916- Wounded in Action France ( Shell Wound Head )
5/07/1916- Admitted 13th Field Ambulance, then 12th Field Ambulance and to 4th Australian R.S
26/07/1916- Discharged from Hospital to 4th Australian Division Base Depot Etaples France
21/08/1916- Rejoined 51st Battalion in the field France ex Base Depot
22/08/1916- Promoted Sergeant in the field France
3/09/1916- Reported Missing in Action France
23/04/1917- Court of Enquiry found SHARPE was Killed in Action near Villers Brettoneux France.
SERVICE MEDALS AWARDED
1914/15 Star – No. 24946
British War Medal – No. 5917
Victory Medal – No. 5893
Memorial Plaque/Scroll – No. 317074
MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS
Kirup Roll of Honour WA
Australian War Memorial Canberra ACT – Panel No. 154
Villers Brettoneux War Memorial France.