Company Quartermaster Sergeant John Shortland

Army Number : 9652
Battalion : 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Awards : Distinguished Conduct Medal, Cross of St. George 4th Class (Russia). London Gazette 3rd June 19153: “For conspicuous gallantry. With a party of only six men he charged a greatly superior number of the enemy and drove them out of our trenches”.
Lived at 7, Selkirk Street, Carrington, Nottingham. Brother of Flora Culley, of 123, Hood Street, Sherwood, Nottingham.
Killed in action, 9th May 1915, age 28, in the attack on Rouges Bancs, France.
Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

