Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29740, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29740/supplements/8871. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 12067 Private William Short, late Yorkshire Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery. On 6th August 1916 at Munster Alley, France, 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 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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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29740, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29740/supplements/8871. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 12067 Private William Short, late Yorkshire Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery. On 6th August 1916 at Munster Alley, France, 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 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.