10.5287/BODLEIANJIRI.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Photograph of Thomas Shortman of Keynsham
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
WdUzzgyu150216
1914-08-01/1916-07-01
2011-12-05 11:26:10.986993
2011
GWA_3376_P1000370.jpg
Photograph
Somerset Light Infantry, killed first day of the Somme 1916.
Editor's Comment:
Pte. 17482 Thomas James Shortman, 1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action 1st July 1916, aged 44. The husband of Clara Ann Shortman, of 14, Dapps Hill, Keynsham, Bristol, he is buried in Thistle Dump Cemetery, High Wood, Longueval. The 1st Bn., as part of the 4th Division, attacked between the villages of Serre and Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the Batlle of the Somme.