SHARPE, Thomas Henry Bertie
| Service Number: | 19376 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 14th Australian General Hospital |
| Born: | Norwood, 25 May 1884 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Memorials: | Edithburgh WW2 Roll of Honor, Edithburgh War Memorial, Norwood Baptist Church WW1 Honour Rolls, Norwood Primary School Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Nov 1917: | Involvement Private, 19376, 14th Australian General Hospital, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Commonwealth embarkation_ship_number: A73 public_note: '' | |
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| 2 Nov 1917: | Embarked Private, 19376, 14th Australian General Hospital, HMAT Commonwealth, Melbourne | |
| 2 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
Thomas Henry Bertie Sharpe was born in Adelaide on the 25th of May 1884. There is not much listed about his early family life; on his enlistment forms, he writes his mother Mary Elizabeth Sharpe as being his next of kin and that they both live on Olive Road in St Peters. Sharpe worked as a clerk before enlisting in the AIF at the age of 29 on April 7th, 1917. He was 5'11 at the time of enlistment and had a medium complexion, blue eyes and brown hair.
Sharpe embarked on the HMAT Commonwealth Melbourne with the 14th Australian General Hospital on the 2nd of November 1917. He disembarked the 38-day long journey at Suez on the 10th of December 1917, then marched in ex "Commonwealth" to Moascar that same day. While on duty, Sharpe worked at the 14th Australian General Hospital. Not much is listed about the work he completed in Moascar. The 14th AGH occupied the Egyptian Army barracks at Abbassia on the outskirts of Cairo until 1919. There was also an annex on the canal at Port Said. It focused on treating war casualties but also treated others with diseases during the campaigns across the Sinai Peninsula and Palestine (such as malaria, dysentery & pneumonia).
On the 27th of December 1917, a little over a month after arriving in Egypt, Sharpe got promoted to A/L/Corp (Acting Lance Corporal) in the 14th Australian General Hospital. This may have been because the previous Lance Corporal had been taken out in battle or had been moved further up in rankings. A couple months later on the 21st of February 1918, Sharpe was Taken on Strength again and moved to the unit at Port Said. Unfortunately, Sharpe fell extremely ill while in Port Said. He took leave to recover from the 8th to the 23rd of December. After he returned to service, he was appointed Lance Corporal back in Abbassia on the 12th of September. The casualty records suggest that Sharpe contracted VDG, Venereal Disease Gonorrhea, while in service but the column containing that information is crossed out in orange pen. It is unsure what this means in terms of whether or not this information is relevant or just a mistake seeing as some other columns have been annotated using this same orange pen.
WWI ended on the 11th of November 1918. Sharpe got held back, most likely packing the unit to leave Egypt. He embarked on the HT. Delta Kantara back to Australia on the 2nd of August 1919.
After the war, Sharpe met Jessie Cornwall … (unsure of her maiden name) and on the 23rd of February 1924, they got married. He was 40 years old.
Biography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
Thomas Henry Bertie Sharpe was born in Adelaide on the 25th of May 1884. There is not much listed about his early family life; on his enlistment forms, he writes his mother Mary Elizabeth Sharpe as being his next of kin and that they both live on Olive Road in St Peters. Sharpe worked as a clerk before enlisting in the AIF at the age of 29 on April 7th, 1917. He was 5'11 at the time of enlistment and had a medium complexion, blue eyes and brown hair.
Sharpe embarked on the HMAT Commonwealth Melbourne with the 14th Australian General Hospital on the 2nd of November 1917. He disembarked the 38-day long journey at Suez on the 10th of December 1917, then marched in ex "Commonwealth" to Moascar that same day. While on duty, Sharpe worked at the 14th Australian General Hospital. Not much is listed about the work he completed in Moascar. The 14th AGH occupied the Egyptian Army barracks at Abbassia on the outskirts of Cairo until 1919. There was also an annex on the canal at Port Said. It focused on treating war casualties but also treated others with diseases during the campaigns across the Sinai Peninsula and Palestine (such as malaria, dysentery & pneumonia).
On the 27th of December 1917, a little over a month after arriving in Egypt, Sharpe got promoted to A/L/Corp (Acting Lance Corporal) in the 14th Australian General Hospital. This may have been because the previous Lance Corporal had been taken out in battle or had been moved further up in rankings. A couple months later on the 21st of February 1918, Sharpe was Taken on Strength again and moved to the unit at Port Said. Unfortunately, Sharpe fell extremely ill while in Port Said. He took leave to recover from the 8th to the 23rd of December. After he returned to service, he was appointed Lance Corporal back in Abbassia on the 12th of September. The casualty records suggest that Sharpe contracted VDG, Venereal Disease Gonorrhea, while in service but the column containing that information is crossed out in orange pen. It is unsure what this means in terms of whether or not this information is relevant or just a mistake seeing as some other columns have been annotated using this same orange pen.
WWI ended on the 11th of November 1918. Sharpe got held back, most likely packing the unit to leave Egypt. He embarked on the HT. Delta Kantara back to Australia on the 2nd of August 1919.
After the war, Sharpe met Jessie Cornwall … (unsure of her maiden name) and on the 23rd of February 1924, they got married. He was 40 years old.