SHORT, Dennis Leslie Wayne Nicholas
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Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
40RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Service Number:
PLY/X 111155
Born:
Monday, March 24, 1924
Birthplace:
Wells, Somerset
Died :
Saturday, June 3, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
20
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Lance Corporal Dennis Short, A' Troop, died during operations on the enemy held island of Brac, Yugoslavia. Son of Eva Maud Short, and stepson of William Nation, of Wookey Hole, Somerset.
- 20/21 May 1944 part of an 'A' Troop overnight Boarding Party on M.G.B. 674 from Vis*
Sources
CWGC.
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/136.
CWGC.
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/136.
*40RM Commando War Diary May 1944 (Report by Lt. C.L. Dutton RM).
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