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Military service
Age:
20
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
58th Bn.
Birth:
April 17, 1896
New York, New York
Enlistment:
March 26, 1915
Brockville, Ontario
Death:
December 10, 1916
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Son of William Allaire and Lucy E. Low Shortt, of Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.; husband of Marie Caroline Clark Shortt of Brockville, Ontario.
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Military Cross
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His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Lieutenant Allen Shortt
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Lieutenant Allen Shortt
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Commemorated on:
Page 162 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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