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Pte. Patrick Etherington Short MM.
British Army 96th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:38 Victoria Street, Dublin
Patrick Short was born on 14th of March 1891 at 21 Great Denmark Street, Dublin in Ireland. He joined the South Lancashire Regiment on 28th of November 1915 and transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in 96th Brigade 32nd Division. He was in hospital when the war ended in 1918 having a hernia operation, he was in the Merchant Navy during the Second World War. After the war he went to Canada for a time then returned to Norwood London and died in 1977.
His brother Francis David Short was in the First War but I have no details on his service. He may have been in the Devon or Dorset Regiment. He survived. Another brother Thomas was in the British Army.

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