Born in Edinburgh.
Enlisted at Dublin on the 7th of February 1847.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 9".
Trade: None shown.
Wounded and taken prisoner of war at Balaclava, 25th October 1854, he died in Hartnoff, Russia, four months later.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava and Sebastopol.
The muster roll states, "Died whilst a prisoner of war".
Thomas Sharpe is said to have died in the hospital at Hartnoff, Russia, on the 27th of February 1855 and to have been buried at Hartnoff at the expense of the English residents there.
According to a letter from Lieutenant Chadwick, 17th Lancers, dated 2nd of April 1855:
"Of twelve men of the 17th Lancers who were taken prisoners on the same day that I was, five only are living....The seven dead [include private] Harrison."
In a letter written to Thomas Morley by James Wightman in March of 1889 the latter said that, "Sharpe died of his wounds."