Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Albert was born on the 9th September 1913 in Nuneaton, Warks, to parents Walter and Edith Sharpe. He was the husband of Alice Emma Sharpe of Hinckley. They had a daughter, Janet, and twin sons, Walter and Albert, born in 1934.
Albert worked for HJ Flude Hosiery in Hinckley prior to joining the Navy. After joining the military, he served in HMS Boreas. He was injured during the Dunkirk operations and subsequently posted to HMS Hood sometime between November 1939 and January 1940, as a Stoker 2nd Class.

Information source: HMS Hood Association website http://www.hmshood.com/crew/memorial/s/SharpeAJ.htm

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HMS Hood in company with the new battleship Prince HMS Prince of Wales, she was sent out to search for the German battleship Bismarck, which had left Norway with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen for the Atlantic. On the morning of 24 May, the two British capital ships found the enemy to the west of Iceland. In the resulting Battle of the Denmark Strait, one or more of Bismarck's fifteen-inch shells got into Hood's after magazines. They erupted in a massive explosion. The great ship sank very quickly about 260 nautical miles west-south-west of Reykjavik, Iceland in position 63º20'N, 31º50'W with all but three of her large crew (uboat.net)
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Information submitted by J. Parrott, 2018