Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private F. Sharpe, York and Lancaster Regiment, who was killed in action at Ypres on 21 December 1915

British War and Victory Medals (1620 Pte. F. Sharpe. Y. & L.R.); Memorial Plaque (Fred Sharpe) very fine (3) £70-£90

Fred Sharpe was born in Leicester in 1884, and attested for the York and Lancaster Regiment on 7 September 1903. He served with them in India from 28 February 1905 to 23 November 1906, before transferring to the Army Reserve on 27 November 1906. Mobilized on 1 September 1914, following the outbreak of the Great War, he served with the 2nd Battalion on the Western Front from 2 November 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres on 21 December 1915. He is buried in la brique Military Cemetery, St. Jean-les-Ypres, Belgium.

Sold with three photographs of the recipient’s grave.