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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wounded and missing, is safe and well in a German prison camp. Shortt, who left college last year to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force, was recently awarded the military cross for exceptional bravery in leading his platoon across "No Man's Land" and capturing practically single-handed a German gun...
According to a letter from the artillery officer in charge of the covering fire during the engagement on the French from in which Allen Shortt '17 was reported to have been captured, he has been awarded the military cross for capturing a German machine gun. Shortt, who was attached to the machine gun section of the 59th Canadian battalion was also mentioned in several official dispatches for singular bravery in leading his platform across the so-called "No-Man-Land" into the German French where he captured practically single-handed, the enemy's gun...
...cable message received at Brazzaville, Ont., from London, states that Allen Short '17, a lieutenant in the machine gun section of the 59th Canadian battalion, was reported missing after an engagement on the French front...
According to a cable from London received at Brockville, Ont., Allan Shortt '17, who was attached to the machine gun section of the 59th Canadian battalion was officially announced as missing after an engagement on the French front. Shortt, who is lieutenant, is thought to be a prisoner of war. He is a nephew of the late Seth Low, LL.D., '90, former mayor-of New York, and was a member of the Class of 1917 when he went to Brockville to enlist...
...rank of captain. His regiment suffered heavily in the famous "Battle of the Slag Heaps" in the Loos offensive of a year ago. For some mysterious reason, as he characteristically puts it, he was recommended for the Military Cross, and after being subsequently transferred to a machine gun company, he was given a furlough to enable him to come to America. Captain Beith sees the humorous as well as the serious side of the situations created by the war, and if the graphic pen pictures in his book may be taken as a criterion, he is the best qualified...