W.E. Short

W.E. Short enlisted with the 34th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Jan., 1915 in Galt, Ont. and arrived in France on Aug. 3rd, 1915, where he was attached to the 1st Battalion. W.E. Short returned to Canada in May 1919.

Diary of CQMS Short, W.E.
from leaving Canada 18 June 1915 to returning 24 May 1919.

"(weather) fine. We lost in our company at Passchendaele 16, 44 wounded, 7 missing." -- November 9th, 1917.

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