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LSig. Willis Douglas Shipway
Royal Navy
from:London
Willis Shipway joined the Navy on 7th of Feb 1914 and joined HMS Dido on 7th of Feb 1920 having previously been on 18 other postings. He left the service on 16th of Aug 1922 and emigrated with his wife to Los Angeles California in 1923. He died in Los Angeles on 11th of May 1951 when he fell from a crane on a building site in a freak accident. He was an electrician and had climbed up a crane that had problems and as he opened the door the handle came off in his hand and he fell. Willis was the husband of my aunt.
2/Lt. A. T. Shipwright
British Army
Lt Shipwright, a prisoner in Holzminden POW camp, escaped but was recaptured.
L/Cpl. P. Shipwright
British Army 1st Btn. Loyal North Lancastershire Regt
(d.2nd April 1915)
Cpl. Wright volunteered to help during a typhus epidemic at Wittenberg POW camp where he was a prisoner. Sadly, he died on 2nd April 1915, after contracting the disease. He is buried in Berlin South Western Cemetery, grave XIII.D.5.
Sgt. James Shires
British Army 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:34 Station Road, Billingham
(d.1st July 1916)
James Shires served with B Coy. 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry.
Gnr. Richard Shires
British Army 170th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Barnoldswick
L/Cpl. Clifford Roland Shirley
South African Army Cape Town Rifles (Dukes)
from:Sea Point
Pte. Edmund Shirley
British Army A Coy. 1st.Btn. East Kent Regiment
from:Ramsgate
Ted Shirley signed up in 1914, falsifying his age: he was born in 1898 but registered it as 1896. He spent 1914 and 1915 in Kent, then was sent to France in 1916. He said he first was sent to Armentieres where they had to build up walls as the ground was too wet to dig trenches down into the soil.
He fought on the Somme from 1916 and received a bullet wound in his left arm in September, recovering at a convalescent centre in France I believe, from your records. He talked about seeing early tanks employed on the battlefield for the first time. On one occasion, when he was stuck in no-man's land he watched as a German sniper shot anyone raising their head to see where they were going as they crawled through barbed wire back across British lines: only those who kept their heads down survived, so that was what he did.
In March 1917 he was wounded with a revolver bullet in the right lung and awoke in a German Military Hospital in Lille. He was moved around to a number of camps in 1917, including camps near Limburg an der Lahn, Wittenburg and Dulmen (near Merseburg?). I found this information in Red cross records. He said that prisoners supplemented their diet with nettle soup.
When he was fit he was moved to a Lager further east into Germany and put to work on the railway running between Berlin and Leipzig. He did not remain in the Lager, instead he was imprisoned in an small rural railway station. There were about half a dozen British soldiers and the same numbers of French and Russian prisoners imprisoned there. The Russians were treated very badly. At one time, some of them would get out at night to steal potatoes from a local farm to supplement their poor diet. That was until the farmer started shooting at them one night. It was here that he heard the war was over and refused to work anymore. He was finally repatriated to England in 1919.
Pte. Joseph Shirley
British Army 1st Batallion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:36 Star Street, Liverpool, Lancashire
(d.20th January 1918)
Joseph Shirley, the only son of John and Harriet Shirley, was my great-uncle. He lived at 36 Star Street,Liverpool. He died on 20th of January 1918, aged 20 and is Remembered with Honour at Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing near Zonnebeke in West Flanders.
A/Capt. A. G. Shirra
British Army 173rd Brigade, B Bty Royal Field Artillery
2nd Lt Francis Gordon Shirreff
British Army 2nd Btn Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Sparsholt/Berkshire
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Pte. Frederick Shirtliff
British Army York & Lancaster Regiment
(d.9th Oct 1917)
CSM William Shooter
British Army Cheshire Regiment
from:Yorkshire
William Shooter was awarded the Albert Medal.
Pte. J. Shore
British Army Royal Irish Regiment
from:Courtnacuddy
Private Shore died on the 3rd November 1920, age 31. He was the Husband of Mary Shore, of Courtnacuddy.
He is buried About 6 yards North-West of the entrance in the Courtnacuddy Catholic Churchyard, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
John Denton Shore
British Army Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Whittington, Derbyshire
Grandfather John Shore was at Shorncliffe Camp in 1911. I know that he went to France in December of 1914. I believe with the Kings Royal Rifles. He was Rifleman Y3r. He achieved the rank of Corporal. I don't know how long he was in France. He was later in The Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby). By the end of the war he had risen to the rank of Warrant Officer 11.
Pte. Thomas John Shore
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Welch Fusiliers
from:Cwmavon, Port Talbot
Pte. William Euwart Gladstone Shore
British Army 7th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Somerton, Somerset
(d.12th February 1917)
William Shore was one of the Kitchener Volunteers, he was wounded in France and later served in Mesopotania. William died of wounds on the 12th of February 1917 and is buried in the Amara War Cemetery.
Pte. William Ewart Gladstone Shore
British Army 7th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
(d.12th February 1917)
My Grandfather, WEG Shore, was firstly in the 1st Battalion Gloucester's. He was wounded in the Battle for Loos (Western Front). He returned home to recover October 1915. He saw his son (my father for the first time, as he was born just 7 days after grandfather sailed to France.
He was later shipped to Mesopotamia with 7th Battalion, wounded on the 10th of February 1917. He died from wounds received on 12th of February 1917. He left behind 4 small children, and my grandmother. I have written a factual account of this and how my family coped with his loss (or not as it turned out). I have titled it "War Widow and Child", and sub titled it "Was she a Vilian and worst mother on Earth? or A Victim of Tragedy and Predatory Men". It is available form Amazon Books, if anyone wants to read an emotive thought provoking true story of how a normal Tommy's family was effected. Much more than a war story.
Cpl. Frederick Shores
4th Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:Spalding
Frederick Shores served with the 4th Battalion, Rifle Brigade
Pte. John Shores
British Army 14th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Hull, East Yorks
(d.13th Nov 1916)
Jack Shores was another young man, an ordinary insurance clerk, with only a name on the Thiepval Monument. My uncle joined 29/10/15. His service attestation form with his signature has been located on line but no photo has been found.
Cpl. Walter Shorrock
British Army 1/4 Battalion East Lancashire Regiment
from:Blackburn, Lancs
Walter Shorrock was my Great Uncle and my maternal Grandmother's brother. Walter was born in Blackburn Lancashire in 1885 and was a Weaver in the local Cotton industry.
At the outbreak of War, he enlisted in the 1/4 East Lancashire Regiment and after a brief spell of training in England he sailed from Southampton on 10 September 1914 disembarking at Alexandria in Egypt on 25 September 1914.
The Division was concentrated around Cairo for acclimatisation and further training. The purpose of the East Lancashire Division was to defend the Suez Canal from Turkish troops.
Walter fought throughout 1914 to 1916 in Egypt and was involved in the reinforcement of the beleaguered Garrison in Gallipoli -it was during this time that Walter was promoted to Corporal. He also saw active service at the Helles bridgehead and around the fierce fighting to capture the dominating heights at Krithia. During these Battles, the East Lancashire Division lost more than one third of its men. After a brief spell in Mudros, Walter returned to Alexandria. Walter was further involved in the Battle of Romani which involved hazardous trekking in loose sand and scorching conditions.
At the beginning of March 1917, Walter moved with his Division to the Western Front which involved trench warfare under very different conditions to those he had experienced in Egypt and Gallipoli.
After arriving at Epehy Walter moved to Havrincourt facing the severity of the German Hindenburg Line at Cambrai. Walter was then involved in the Third Battle of Ypres or Passchendeele including an attack on the Sans Souci on 15 September 1917. Later that month he moved over to Belgium at Nieuport before on to Givenchy on the La Bassee Canal near Bethune.
Walter was wounded in action on 29 June 1917 and days later was gassed after heavy shelling. He battled on and after re-joining his Battalion he saw further action before succumbing to gastritis which eventually saw him discharged from the Army in October 1918 - after completing 4 years and 77 days in the Great War.
Walter survived the War and continued to live a contented life until his death in 1973 at the age of 88 years. I am proud to say I knew and met Walter on several occasions when he visited my Grandmother. He was a kindly, quiet and self-effacing man who belied the tortuous experiences he had been through in the service of his Country
Pte. John Charles William Cumberland Shorrocks
from:Huddersfield, Yorkshire
(d.18th Sep 1916)
John Shorrocks is remembered on the war memorial in the park at Marsden near Huddersfield, but is listed as Sharrocks.
Short
Army 7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Albert Short
British Army 20th Btn. London Regiment
(d.8th April 1917)
Albert Short served with 20th Battalion, London Regiment, he was killed in action on the 8th of April 1917 and his name appears on the Stockport Town Hall memorial for Corporation employees killed in the Great War.
Although there are no direct links to employment there, he appears to be the only man of that name with links to Stockport. In 1901 his parents George William and Sarah ran the Lord Nelson Pub 108 Love Lane, Stockport. Albert was 5 (1896) with older siblings Thomas, William, Frederick, and Ada. (plus a house maid A. Green). It appears the pub closed due to competition from the Church Inn at 110 as by 1911 the family had moved to the Traveller's Call, Bredbury, Stockport (Still trading). Albert, then 15, was an apprentice fitter.
The only London connection is that his father was born in Pimlico. His mother was born in Glossop and the children in Heaton Norris, Stockport.
There appear to be no service records for Albert and his very short obituary in the Cheshire Year Book, 1918 states he was 21, in a Trench Mortar Battery. He was living in Levenshulme, Manchester and was formerly of Bredbury. He is buried in Bedford House Cemetery.
Pte. Arthur Short
British Army 6th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Pte. Frederick Short
British Army 1st/4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Reading
My grandfather Fred always referred to himself as "Short by name, short by nature" - he was you will deduce not tall! I recall as a child asking my mother why my grandfather always cried on remembrance day. She said it was because he was remembering all his friends he had lost. Particularly so on one day when his squad was assembled at the top of the trench ready to launch an attack when a shell exploded right on the edge of the trench. All his mates were killed and he was the only one to survive, although injured (he had a dent in his cheek which I understood was from the shrapnel), he was thankful for his small stature from that day on. Pre war he worked in Huntley & Palmers biscuit factory in Reading and he returned there after the war, working there until he retired.
Act.Cpl. J. R. Short
British Army 24th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.4th Oct 1917)
Act.Cpl. A.R. Short served with the Northumberland Fusiliers 24th Battalion. He was executed for mutiny on 4th October 1917 and is buried in the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Boulogne, France.
John James Short
Royal Irish Fusiliers
Jack Short served in the Royal Irish Fusiliers and the Tank Corps.
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.
Able Sea. Raymond Cyril Short
Mercantile Marine HMHS Llandovery Castle
(d.27th Jun 1918)
Raymond Short died ages 28, he was born in Jarrow in 1890, the son of Thomas and Emma Currall Short. On the 1911 Census, Raymond Cyril Short, age 21, a Seaman in the Merchant Service, is recorded as living with his Mother Emma Currall Osbourne (formerly Short, nee Clay) & his Stepfather Edmund Osbourne & his sister at 22, Bols Street, Warrington.
He is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial.
Sidney John Short
British Army lst Btn Bedfordshire Regiment
from:Garboldisham, Norfolk
(d.14th April 1917)
Sidney Short was my great uncle, brother to my grandfather. He died aged 20. He is buried in the Zouave Valley Cemetery, Souchez.
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