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James Ashley Everard Sharp was born in Hampshire on 21 December 1919, the elder son of Dr Everard Sharp MD and Amy (née Ashley-Cooper). He was educated at Charterhouse School, where he was a member of the football XI and was awarded his colours for fives. James Sharp entered Worcester College, Oxford, on 13 October 1939 but left in 1940 without taking a degree, to join to the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, where he trained as a pilot at No. 55 Operational Training Unit.
On 28 March 1942 Sergeant James Sharp took off in a Miles Master two-seater monoplane, with Sergeant Alan Dodd as the pilot. During the flight they decided to fly over Sergeant Dodd’s home Twizell House in Warrenford, Northumberland. While they were flying at low level over the house the aircraft struck some trees and crashed, killing both men. James Sharp was 22 years old.
James Sharp is buried at St Margaret’s Church, Burnham Norton in Norfolk. He is commemorated on the war memorials at Burnham Market and Brancaster in Norfolk, and on the war memorials at Charterhouse School and Worcester College, Oxford.