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Capt. Jack Cameron Short
British Army 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment
from:Kent
(d.30th September 1943)
My Grandfather, Jack Short, was among many been transported from P.G. 21 to a German POW camp. Whilst waiting to continue the journey to Germany, at the Sulmona Station, he and 2 other British soldiers made a run for it, unfortunately he was shot dead, the other 2 halted.