The Scottish War Memorials Project

dhubthaigh · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:21 pm Post subject: ALEXANDER SHARP

THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL: 08.02.1919
FOR THEIR COUNTRY

SHARP - At Leigh Military Hospital, on Monday, 3rd Feb., Pte. A. Sharp, second son of Mr and Mrs Sharp, Binn Cottages, Kinfauns. Funeral from Binn Cottages, on Saturday, 8th Feb., to Kinfauns Churchyard, at 2 p.m. All friends invited.

THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL: 15.02.1919
KINFAUNS - SOLDIER'S FUNERAL

Never before has such an impressive funeral taken place in this quiet parish as that witnessed on Saturday, when the remains of Pte. Alex. Sharp, 4/5th Black Watch, son of Mr and Mrs Sharp, Binn Cottages, were laid to rest in the churchyard of Kinfauns. The obsequies were after the military form, the Black Watch band and firing party being in attendance. Lieut.-Col. R. S. Davidson, minister of the parish, officiated, and as the cortege wound its way slowly along the picturesque road many spectators could be seen viewing it from the various points of vantage. Pte. Sharp died in a military hospital in Lancashire.

kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 561 Location: Aberdeenshire

Mark

He was aged 28 but nothing else to be found on him. You will need to obtain the DC to see what it reveals. Send me an e-mail if you get it.

The reference for Alexander Sharp is: District - Leigh, Volume 8C, page 448.
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Jim

If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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