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Name: John Sharp Number: - Service: Indian Engineers. Rank: Lieutenant. Born: 26 April 1911. Died: 7 August 1942          Age 31 Buried: Baghdad War Cemetery, Iraq. Parents John and Mary married 1908 and later lived in Edward Place, Stepps with children born there between 1913 and 1921. The family were in Alexandra Avenue in the 1920s and in Cardowan Drive, both in Stepps, in the 1940s. CWGC site:   Yes. SNWM site:   Yes. Commemorated on family stone, Riddrie Cemetery, Glasgow. There was a second son, George, born 1913 in Stepps who joined the RAF and was awarded the DFC in 1945.