Private Nelson Richard Sharpe
38433 Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 14th December 1917, aged 24
Buried in Baghdad North Gate Cemetery, Iraq
Burnley Express 3/11/1917

Listed on the Ashley Road, Epsom, the Epsom Brotherhood and the Christ Church, Epsom Memorials.

Nelson Richard Sharpe was born in 1893 in Croydon Surry (GRO ref: 1893 Croydon 2a 279), son of Nelson and Mabel Sharpe. No record of their marriage has been found. His father was born in Tenterden Kent and his mother in Folkestone Kent.
Aged 8, Nelson and his parents were living in one of the Maria Cottages near Christ Church in Epsom Surrey (Epsom Common?) when the 1901 census was taken. With them were Nelson’s younger siblings 6-year-old Madelene and 4-year-old Harry. Nelson senior worked as a coach smith to support his family.

In the 1911 census Nelson Richard Sharpe was listed as such but Harry appears as Harry George Jackson Sharpe, his mother as Mabel Bateman Sharpe and his father as Nelson Henry Sharpe. Madelene does not appear to be living with her family, but in 1916 she married Arthur G Bradley in Epsom.

Nelson died in Mesopotamia and is remembered on the XVI. E. 8 memorial in the Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery.

Also remembered on the Burnley war memorial?