S6458
SHARP, John Thomas
| Service Number: | 6425 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 July 1915, at Adelaide |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Southwick, Sussex, England , April 1882 |
| Home Town: | Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Circumstances of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 6425, 3rd Field Company Engineers, at Adelaide | |
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| 20 Mar 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 6425, 3rd Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Armadale embarkation_ship_number: A26 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Mar 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 6425, 3rd Field Company Engineers, HMAT Armadale, Sydney | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 6425, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Modbury High School
John Thomas Sharp was a World War One soldier assigned number 6425 SHARP. He joined the war on August 20, 1915, and was ranked as a Sapper. He was married to Annie Helen and had five children. John Sharp was 33 years old and four months old and 5 feet and 6 inches and a half tall. John's hair colour was brown and his eye colour was blue.
John Thomas Sharp was born in Southwick, Sussex. He worked as a labourer in Broken Hill.
Sharp embarked from Australia on 20 March 1916. After arriving in France in May, he was initially transferred to the 1st Division Ammunition Column and then, in September 1916, to the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade. He served with that unit for the next eighteen months until in April 1918 he was hospitalised with trench fever. He did not recover enough from his illness to return to duty and so was shipped back to Australia in November 1918.