BORN HESSLE 1890. SON OF JABEZ SHARP (1859-1922) AND ROSE EMMA ATKINSON (1860-1908). HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN SWANLAND AND DIED WHEN HE WAS EIGHT. HIS FATHER WAS BORN AT BARNETBY, LINCOLNSHIRE AND RAN A BUTCHER'S SHOP AT COW LANE, HESSLE. THIS WAS A FAMILY BUSINESS WHICH EMPLOYED HIS BROTHERS. HIS FATHER MARRIED RUTH ANDERSON IN 1910.

HARRY WAS A BUTCHER, AND A PATIENT AT 22 ALBION STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS).

HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 10TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 11/11/1916, AGED 25. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HESSLE ROLL OF HONOUR, ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH.

HIS WAR PENSION WENT TO HIS WIDOW, BERTHA CHAPMAN DUCK, WHO HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1915. SHE WAS BORN ON 10 JAN 1888 & LIVED AT 65, GLOUCESTER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SHE RECEIVED A WEEKLY 13/9 SHILLINGS WAR PENSION ON 9 JULY 1917.

HIS ELDEST BROTHER WILLIAM, S2287, SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION AND WAS DISCHARGED ON 6 SEPT 1916 AFTER SERVING FOR 1 YEAR & 179 DAYS. HIS SECOND BROTHER, PRIVATE, ALBERT SHARP, 116260, 1ST MACHINE GUN CORPS (INFANTRY), WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 20 APRIL 1918, AGED 28. LEAVING A WIDOW, ALICE MAUD SHARP AT RED HOUSE, HESSLE (CWGC RECORDS).

Thank you to Dave Bean for his amendments Submitted on: 2022/09/15 at 9:28 am - 

Hi Paul, Your collections of WW1 soldiers on this site is admirable to say the least. It is great source of reference as I am researching the Hull GPO soldiers who died.

One such is Harry Leonard Sharp. On your site you say he was born in Hessle 1894 parents Edwin and Mary Ann. I traced Harry to Hessle in the 1891 census he was born late 1890 in Hessle living with his grandparents. His parents were listed as Jabez Sharp(e) and Rose Elizabeth? in the 1911 census Harry is given the age of 20 and has followed his father Jabez into the butcher shop he owns in Cow Lane Hessle but is a patient at 22 Albion Street hospital.

The other Harry Leonard Sharp born in 1894 @44 Buckingham Street with his brother Fred were all born in Hull. according to the census they have the parents Edwin and Mary Ann . UK Postal records show Harry Leonard as being appointed in 1910 and in 1912 is a full Postman this means he began at age 16 and was aged 22 when he died. Unfortunately the GPO records do not give ages on their listings and the names they commemorate in a book give scant detail either.

I believe the Harry recognised on the Hessle site is not the Harry I seek he was def a butcher in 1911 with no time to build up a short few years in the GPO.

However the two brothers Harry and Fred from Buckingham Street are related and it is those that are from Hull with Harry being the postman, No connection with the Harry from Hessle. Could you please revisit this for me and would appreciate your valued comments on this. Many thanks Dave dvbeany@yahoo.co.uk