Sharp, John Hall Davidson
Rank: Captain
Regiment: 5/7th battalion, The Gordon Highlanders
Biography: Son of the late George Gardiner Sharp and Louisa Elizabeth Sharp (nee Hall), banker, Banchory ; born Banchory, 1910 ; educated at Banchory Secondary and Aberdeen Grammar Schools. He graduated M.A. in 1931 and B.L. in 1937. He served his law apprenticeship with Messrs. Morice & Wilson, advocates, Aberdeen, continuing with the firm and being admitted to the Society of Advocates in 1938. He had been gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders, Territorial Army, in 1938, and was mobilized at the outbreak of war. He served with the 51st Division in North Africa, and was killed in action during the battle of El Alamein on 24 October 1942.
Date of Death: 24 October 1942
Burial Details: Buried at El Alamein War Cemetery, V. C. 10
Publication: Roll of Remembrance. Published 1952.
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