Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29210/pages/6270. No. 7942 Acting Corporal Charles Richard Sharpe, 2nd Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment. On 9th May 1915 at Rouges Bancs, France, Corporal Sharpe was in charge of a blocking party sent forward to take a portion of the German trench. He was the first to reach the enemy's position and using bombs with great effect he himself cleared them out of a trench 50 yards long. By this time all his party had fallen and he was then joined by four other men with whom he attacked the enemy with bombs and captured a further trench 250 yards long.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29210/pages/6270. No. 7942 Acting Corporal Charles Richard Sharpe, 2nd Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment. On 9th May 1915 at Rouges Bancs, France, Corporal Sharpe was in charge of a blocking party sent forward to take a portion of the German trench. He was the first to reach the enemy's position and using bombs with great effect he himself cleared them out of a trench 50 yards long. By this time all his party had fallen and he was then joined by four other men with whom he attacked the enemy with bombs and captured a further trench 250 yards long.