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Private JOSEPH SHORT

Service Number: 5103149
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 May 1940

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CALONNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Row C. Grave 3.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Rosina Short, of Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription DEEP IN OUR HEARTS YOUR MEMORY IS KEPT WE WHO LOVED YOU WILL NEVER FORGET
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Buried or commemorated at

CALONNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 71
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