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Squadron Leader WALTER HORACE BROOKE SHORT

Service Number: 136419
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

181 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 27 December 1944

Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY

7. C. 17.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Flying Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Walter Mayow Burgoyne Short, and of Clare Mary Short, of Paddington, London.
  • Personal Inscription SON OF CLARE & WALTER SHORT. "HE, AS HE FLEW... DEATHLESS ROSE TO IMMORTALITY"
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Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3339
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