Moston (St. Joseph’s) Roman Catholic Cemetery, Lancashire

Morning

Does anyone reside near to Moston (St. Joseph’s) Roman Catholic Cemetery, Lancashire at all or have a headstone picture of the below, please,

Alfred Joseph Ignatius SHARP
Lieutenant 212212
88th (2/9th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery

Died in England on Tuesday 9 February 1943

Buried in Section L. Grave 716. (Private headstone)

Many thanks,

Graeme

 

I do Graeme. I'll pop over this week and post it for you.

 

Hi Mostonian,

Cheers, many thanks for that,

Regards,

Graeme

 

Hi

Just bumping this up

Regards,

Graeme

 

Sorry Graeme. I'll go this week!

 

Mostonian

Can I impose upon you please for two ATS girls?

BELL, Bernadette - St. John Bosco Sect. Gr.344

SMITH, Elizabeth - St. Teresa Sect. Gr. 3394

Be most grateful and wil PM email add if OK

Tony

 

Hi Graeme

Was passing Moston Cemetery today and had a look for your grave. Took some photos on my phone, but really struggled to get any decent shots due to the condition of the grave and the lettering, and also the lighting conditions in that part of the cemetery. Have posted a few up here (with reduced file size) but if you message me your e-mail address i will send you the originals direct.

 

Tony

I also found the graves your interested in and took photos as below (have reduced the file size to enable uploading). If you message me your e-mail address will send you the originals direct.

 

ClankyP

Most grateful email on the way

Tony

 

Hı

Am ın Turkey at the moment for a few weeks so apologıse for not answerıng before.

Many thanks for the pıcs, really apprecıate your tıme and trouble, have e-maıled you my address,

Regards,

Graeme

 

I'm really sorry for the delay. I've been over today (without reading the thread!) and got the pictures. It was a bit of a mission finding them, and as noted above the lighting and condition of the lettering make them hard to see. Apologies again, and Tony, I'll pop over again this week and get some for you.

Here's a link to the pictures Graeme. What's the story behind him? I plan at some point to try and take all the CWGC headstones in there and any private memorials like this and get as much information on the men and their stories as possible.

Alfred Sharp

You can click on the individual picture and get the higher resolutions.

 

Here's the link to the detail on him in high resolution: Detail

And the whole headstone: Headstone

 

Mostonian

Nice Photos. A lot better and clearer than my attempt.

Not sure if they are of interest to you with regard to your proposed project but i came across these graves while looking for Tony's and Graeme's requests.
The RAF one was in the St Anthonys section and both the Fusiliers were in the St Teresa's section.

Regards

 

Thanks Clanky. There's a very unusual CWGC headstone in there too. I've visited hundreds of CWGC cemeteries and never seen another example. It's not strictly on topic for this forum as it's WW1, but it may be of interest. I'd be grateful if anyone has another example, or could confirm it's a privately commissioned headstone by the family.
It contains two men's names, but instead of being one above the other, they are side by side, and the headstone is wider than the standard.

I presume they are relatives given the same surname, but does anyone else have any examples, or is this a one off?

http://flic.kr/p/daRr14

 

Double post, sorry. I can't seem to see the delete button!

 

Hi

A massive public thanks to Mostonian and Clanky for their efforts to assist in my research.

Cheers, many thanks,

Graeme