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|Surname and forenames=Sharples Samuel Hartley
|Army number=3659941
|Rank=Gunner 
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|Date of birth=
|Age=28
|Unit=Enlisted in the Prince of Wales' Volunteers - date not known.  Transferred to the Royal Artillery.  Posted to 125th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.  Converted to 125th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery.  Presumed Killed in Action/Died of Wounds.
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|Wounded=Possibly.
|Prisoner of War=No.  Killed in action or died of wounds before the Regiment was captured in Singapore 15/2/1942.
|Died/Killed in action=11/2/1942.
|Home address=Son of Thomas and Lucy Sharples.  Husband of Ethel of Radcliffe, Lancashire.  Commemorated on the Singapore Memorial – Column 30.
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