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VC615 Charles Richard Sharpe
BORN 2 April 1889
DIED 17 February 1963 AGE 73
VC Won 9 May 1915 AGE 26
Place VC Won Rouges Banc, Aubers Ridge, France
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Charles Richard Sharpe No. 7942
VC Issue No. 615 Awards VC
Regiment Lincolnshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Later
Now Royal Anglian Regiment
Rank VC Won Acting Corporal
Rank End Of Career Company Sergeant-Major
Place Of Birth Pickworth, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England
Place Of Death Workington Infirmary, Cumbria, England
Buried/Location Ashes Newport Cemetery, Manor Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 21 February 1963
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Plot H, Grave 354
Gazetted 29 June 1915
VC Presented 24 July 1915 by King George V at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Newport Cemetery, Manor Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Named on scroll, St Andrews Church, Pickworth, Lincolnshire
Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, War Memorial, Bourne, Lincolnshire
By The Way…
After the war he did various gardening jobs and worked on the dustcarts
VC Held By
Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, Museum of Lincolnshire Life, Old Barracks, Burton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
