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Lance Corporal WILLIAM HENRY SHORT

Service Number: 14209889
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

2nd (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 January 1945

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOTTON WAR CEMETERY

I. D. 8.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Henry Frank Short, and of Rosa Short, of Langport, Somerset.
  • Personal Inscription DEEP IN OUR HEARTS HIS MEMORY IS KEPT WE LOVED HIM TOO WELL TO EVER FORGET
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Buried or commemorated at

HOTTON WAR CEMETERY
Luxembourg Belgium
Number of casualties: 668
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