Mathew Short

Company C 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 07/09/1944

Mathew Short was born in Ohio on March 1, 1917. He was drafted into the Army
on January 28, 1943 at Abingdon, Virginia. His home of residence was listed
as Hueysville, Floyd County, Kentucky and his civilian occupation was listed
as Semiskilled miners, and mining-machine operators. He had completed
grammar school and was married. His religion was listed as Protestant.

Private First Class Short was killed in action in France
on July 9, 1944 in the vicinity of Neuville.

Mathew Short was buried in the temporary U.S. Military Cemetery,
Sainte Mere-Eglise #2 at Carentan, France and some time later
his remains were returned to the United States where he was
reinterred in Kentucky.

BURIAL :

Reen Hall Cemetery, Topmost, Knott County, Kentucky

Grave marker for Mathew Short

Photo by Charlotte Denise Hall-Boyd from the Find A Grave website

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