Edgar Joseph Sharp
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Edgar Joseph Sharp was born in 1878 at Newark and was the son of Joseph and Jane Sharp née Aldridge of Newark. His father Joseph was born in 1847 in Newark and his mother Jane Aldridge was born in 1851 at Barrowby, they were married in 1868 at Newark and had the following children, Harry b1875, Edgar b1878, Ernest b1879 and Annie b1884. Edgar married his wife Edith Hawkesworth (born 25th July 1886 Stamford) in 1909 at Newark, they had a two daughters Annie Elizabeth born 1st September 1909 at Newark and Elsie born 31st March 1916 at Newark, they lived at 1, Brewsters Yard, Parliament St., Newark. In the 1911 census he and his family are living at The Rovings, Farndon Fields, Newark and are shown as Edgar Joseph Sharp 29 years an iron moulder, he is living with his wife Edith May 24 yrs and their daughter Annie Elizabeth 19 months of age. Following his death his widow was awarded a pension of 25 shillings and five pence a week which commenced on 20th May 1918.
Private Edgar Sharp enlisted at Newark, he served with the 1/8th battalion Sherwood Foresters Regiment. Philosophe British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. He was killed in action on 2nd November 1917 and is buried at Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France.
a.k.a. ""SHARPE"". Article published 14th November 1917 in the Newark Advertiser :- Son of Joseph & Jane Sharp. Resided with wife and two young children at Trent Villas, Farndon Fields. Prior to the war worked as a coremaker at Simpsons’. An old Newark volunteer, he was in camp with the local regiment when war broke out and was one of that fast dwindling band of heroic Newark lads who marched out of the Market Place in the early days of the war. He did not go to France, however, until just 12 months ago. He was wounded in the cheek and had a month in a base hospital. Three weeks after rejoining his unit, he was killed by a German shell at six o’clock on the morning of Nov. 2nd. Described in the Newark press as ‘Drummer’
