Gladstone Short was born in 1881 in Mansfield Nottinghamshire. He served in India before returning to Mansfield and marrying Mabel in 1910.  He worked for the Midland Railway Comany as a goods porter and had two children Samuel and Robert Dean.  As a reservist he was called up at the beginning of the war.  He was injured on the 12th October 1914 by a bayonet and died the following day.  He was buried in the Brown's Road Cematary in France.   His great great grandson knows his story and he will not be forgotten.

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Catherine Ellis