| Walter Sharp | |
 Walter at the age 105, with his pet pooch Harry. | |
| Birth: | 7 August 1914 Camelon, Falkirk, Scotland, UK |
| Death: | 19 August 2020 Camelon, Falkirk, Scotland, UK |
| Age: | 106 years, 12 days |
| Country: |  UK
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| Centenarian | |
Walter Sharp (7 August 1914 – 19 August 2020) was a British centenarian who was the oldest known living man in Scotland at time of his death. He was also the oldest resident of Falkirk district.
Biography[]
Walter Sharp was born in Camelon, Scotland, UK on 7 August 1914, as was one of five children along with brothers Robert, Jack and William and sister Helen.
After attending Carmuirs Primary School and Camelon High School, he began working at the Carmuirs Iron Works before joining the Army aged 26.
While serving in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Surrey, he would also meet his wife, Doris. He married Doris in 1944 and had one son Brian (aged 72 in 2019). He got widowed in 1990.
At the age of 100, he still was working delivering papers and believes he might just be the world's oldest paperboy. He was one of the first in Scotland to get the French Legion of Honour in 2015. At the age of 105, he was blind and had a hearing aid.
Sharp became the oldest known living man in Scotland following the death of 106-year-old Chic Kennedy on 19 June 2020. He died two months later at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, Falkirk, Scotland, UK on 19 August 2020 at the age of 106 years, 12 days. After his death, George Pollard became the oldest known man in Scotland.
References[]
- Scottish paperboy still doing his rounds aged 100 The Scotsman, 25 August 2014
- 100-Year-Old Paperboy Reveals The Secret To Longevity HuffPost Brasil, 25 August 2014
- 101th birthday Facebook Post, 11 August 2015
- Falkirk veteran Walter, 104, remembers the triumph and tragedy of 1944 Falkirk Herald, 2 June 2019
- Camelon war veteran Walter Sharp has a special celebration Falkirk Herald, 7 August 2019
- Camelon war veteran Walter Sharp has a special celebration The Scotsman, 7 August 2019
- Camelon old soldier in VE Day tribute Falkirk Herald, 8 May 2020
- Camelon war veteran Walter Sharp celebrates latest milestone Falkirk Herald, 7 August 2020
- Death of Camelon veteran Walter Sharp (106) Falkirk Herald, 20 August 2020
| Scotland's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (V • E) |
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Andrew Amos • Alexander MacPhail • James Mathison • William Kirkpatrick • Thomas Maxwell • Robert Spence • William Green • Samuel Brown • James Webster • William Laidlaw • John Macrae • Thomas Senior • Peter Melville • Gavin Allan • John Young • Angus MacLeod • James Watt • Donald Maclellan • Robert Grieve • Henry Reid • John Macaskill • William Laing • George Wilkie • Donald MacInnes • James Matches • James Balnaves • James Morrison • Joseph McVinnie • Francis Mathison • John MacGregor • John Dykes • John Neill • James Ogilvie • Alexander Pirie • George Ferguson • William Mair • Jock Smith • Alexander Mackay • Tom Petrie • George McLaren • Henry Kempton • Andrew Main • Gilbert Campbell • John McNally • William Burns • Lachlan MacQueen • Gilbert Watson • Angus Orr • William Eeles • John Glendinning • Robert McBride • John Barr • John Morton • Andrew Drummond • Peter Cummings • James Hardy • David Henderson • Ernest Clucas • Ewen Ross • Sandy Gall • Alfred Anderson • James Wotherspoon • Bob Taggart • Sam Latter • John Hodge • Leo Tavelli • David Campbell • James Hagan • Frank Saunders • Tom MacIver • Alf Smith • Jimmy Sinclair • Chic Kennedy • Walter Sharp • George Pollard • David Crawford • Hugh Munro Kerr |