Name
Sidney Sharp
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
09/06/1943
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
T/99228
Royal Army Service Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LA REUNION WAR CEMETERY
Algeria
Headstone Inscription
DEEP IN OUR HEARTS A MEMORY IS KEPT OF ONE WE LOVED AND SHALL NEVER FORGET
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St. John's War Memorial, St. Mary's Church, Hitchin, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He was born in Hertfordshire and was resident there before the war when he was an apprentice bricklayer with James Builders of Luton. He joined the R.A.S.C. in 1939 and was given the Service Number T/99228. He was a driver and served in France from October 1939 at an ammunition park until he was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940. Later he served in the Middle East where he was killed.
He is buried in Plot 4, Row D, Grave 2 in La Reunion War Cemetery, Bougie, Algeria.
His parents were William and Edith Sharp of 35, Stevenage Road, Hitchin and he was one of five brothers in the services.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian, Herts Pictorial dated 5th December 1939
