Captain Vere Dawson Shortt

Regiment: 7th Northamptonshire Regiment
Panel reference: Panel 91 to 93.
Date published: 26/11/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 27/09/1915
Cemetery: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Information: Captain Vere Dawson Shortt, 7th Northamptonshire Regiment, who was killed in action in France on the 27th September, was the only son of the late James Fitzmaurice Shortt, of Moorfield, Mountrath, and grand nephew of the late Vere Shortt, of Larch Hill, Queen's County. He was in the Cape Mounted Rifles from 1890-1895 and served through the Pondoland campaign with them.