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Sharpe, William Frederick Nelson (Lieutenant)
Killed in Flying Accident 1915-February-04
Birth Date: unkown date (age 23)
Born: Prescott, Ontario
Frederick Charles Sharpe & Ida Bell Sharpe
Alma K. Sharpe
Home: Prescott, Ontario
Service RFC
Unit (RFC)
Rank Lieutenant
Position pilot
Service Numbers 30124, RFC
Sharpe earned his pilot certificate at the Glenn Curtiss School in California in 1914, before the war. He was gazetted a Lieutenant in the RFC in the 3 RS. He died in a crash at Shoreham on 1915-02-04, when his Farman nose-dived to the ground off a climbing turn near the Sussex Pad Public House at Lancing. Sharpe was the first Canadian in the flying service casualty of WWI.
pg.77, Canadian Aeronautics -1915
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