BORN HESSLE 1891. SON OF JABEZ SHARP (1860-1922) AND ROSE EMMA ATKINSON (1860-1908). HIS FATHER 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 APPOINTED AN ASSISTANT POSTMAN, AT HULL IN 1910. HE WAS THEN A BUTCHER, 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.
First name:
HARRY LEONARD
Military Number:
43138
Rank:
Private
Date Died
11/11/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
25
