In Memory Of

SHORT, ARCHIBALD GRAY

Service Details
Age:
 36
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 5235
Rank:
 Company Quartermaster Sergeant
Unit:
 4th Regt.
Unit 2:
 "A" Coy.
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Former Regiment:
 5th Infantry (Kaffrarian Rifles)
Date of Death:
 1916-07-19
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Delville Wood
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 I. E. 9.
Cemetery:
 WARLENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
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"
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.