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Military service
Service number:
1202
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Death:
July 1, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of William Miller Short and Annie Short, of New Bonaventure.
Digital gallery of Private Richard Short
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Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
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Entrance
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Inscription on Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
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Memorial Stained Glass
This memorial window is in St. Paul's Anglican Church in Old Bonaventure, Newfoundland. The names on the left side are Richard M. (Miller) Short (my mother's eldest paternal uncle), then William J. King, then Aaron King and the right side are William Clark, then Henry A. King, then Joshua Short (my mother's cousin). This picture was captured by myself in 1999.
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Short
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Short
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Short
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Short
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 113 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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