Service Details
Name:
 SHORT
Given Name:
 ARCHIBALD GRAY
Initials:
 A G
Service No:
 5235
Rank:
 Company Quartermaster Sergeant
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 4th Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "A" Coy.
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Former Regiment:
 5th Infantry (Kaffrarian Rifles)
Date of Death:
 1916-07-19
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Age:
 36
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Delville Wood
Decorations:
 Mentioned in Despatches, Brought to the Notice of the Secretary of State for War
Citations:
 Brought to the Notice of the Secretary of State for War LG Sup 22 August 1918 - "For distinguished service in the Field and in connection with the campaign in German South-West Africa, 1914-15"
Additional
Information:
Son of Hamilton and Emma Short, of Cape Town; husband of Eleanora Agnew Short, of 26, Atkinson's Buildings, Waterkant St., Cape Town. Also served in the German South-West African Campaign. Declared missing in action, his body was found after the war.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 WARLENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 I. E. 9.

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