Military History

Embarked Fremantle Per HMAT ‘Anchises’ A68 for Egypt 2.9.1915.
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit 16th Battalion, 8th Reinf.
Sharp disembarked in Egypt. It is not recorded if he saw active service. Sharp was admitted to Hospital at Helouan with mental breakdown 5.10.1915. He was transferred to the No.1 Auxiliary Hospital Cairo with a debility 5.10.1915. Sharp was transferred to the No.1 Auxiliary Hospital at Helouan with dysentery 15.3.1916. Sharp was transferred to the Convalescent Hospital at Heliopolis. He was reported as unfit for active service and was listed for return to Australia for 3 months ‘change’.
Embarked Suez for Australia per HT ‘Runic’ 11.4.1916.
Returned/Disembarked Melbourne 12.5.1916.
Discharged 20.5.1916 permanently unfit.
Final Rank Private, 16th Bn AIF.
Medical Condition Invalided with chronic dysentery and breakdown.
Awards and Medals 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Photos HMAT 'Anchises'. Photographer A.C.Green, photograph sourced and reproduced with permission of  Great Southern Cards
             Palace Hotel used as the 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, Cairo 1916. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM P10997.020

Information Source
AWM P10997.020. Palace Hotel used as the 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, Cairo 1916. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced fom the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM Charles Stephen Sharp
Great Southern Cards. HMAT 'Anchises'. Photographer A.C.Green, photograph sourced and reproduced with permission of Great Southern Cards, website http://www.greatsoutherncards.com.au/thumbs-2008.htm
NAA: B2455, Sharp Charles Stephen.
St Matthew’s Honour Roll
Wise H. and Coy. Western Australian Post Office Directories. SLWA

'Sandgate', Guildford, WA (possibly Beechboro near Guildford)

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