The Great War Memorial Plaque to Engineer Lieutenant Commander M. J. R. Sharp, D.S.O., Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Recruit was torpedoed and sunk by UB-16 on 9 August 1917

Memorial Plaque (Maurice James Rogers Sharp) nearly extremely fine £100-£140

D.S.O. London Gazette 14 September 1917:
‘For services in vessels of the Harwich Force during the war.’

Maurice James Rogers Sharp, the son of Engineer Admiral William Sharp, was born in Plymouth, Devon, on 1 September 1881. He was commissioned into the Royal Navy and served with the Harwich Force during the Great War. He was killed in action when the destroyer H.M.S. Recruit was torpedoed and sunk by UB-16 on 9 August 1917 with the lost of 53 lives. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.