Private William Short
Private William Short, of Eston, near Middlesbrough, was 31 when he died. The Green Howard was still priming guns and encouraging comrades while dying of terrible wounds.
Pte Short was fighting at Munster Alley, a key area in the Battle of the Somme, for the Green Howards’ B Company, when he sustained serious injuries first to his foot and then leg.
Pvt Short’s VC citation read: “For most conspicuous bravery. He was foremost in the attack, bombing the enemy with great gallantry, when he was severely wounded in the foot. He was urged to go back, but refused and continued to throw bombs. Later his leg was shattered by a shell, and he was unable to stand, so he lay in the trench adjusting detonators and straightening the pins of bombs for his comrades. He died before he could be carried out of the trench. For the last eleven months he had always volunteered for dangerous enterprises, and has always set a magnificent example of bravery and devotion to duty.”
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