Sharpe, William Frederick Nelson (Lieutenant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1915-February-04

Birth Date: 1892-December

Born: Prescott, Ontario

Parents: Frederick Charles Sharpe & Ida Bell Sharpe

Spouse: Alma K. Sharpe

Home: Prescott, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RFC

Unit

(RFC)

Base

Rank

Lieutenant

Position

pilot

Service Numbers

30124, RFC

Final Burial
Google MapSandy Hill Cemetery
Section 10 Block 5 Lot 4 Grave B
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