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Albert Short
British Army 20th Btn. London Regiment
(d.8th April 1917)
Albert Short served with 20th Battalion, London Regiment, he was killed in action on the 8th of April 1917 and his name appears on the Stockport Town Hall memorial for Corporation employees killed in the Great War.
Although there are no direct links to employment there, he appears to be the only man of that name with links to Stockport. In 1901 his parents George William and Sarah ran the Lord Nelson Pub 108 Love Lane, Stockport. Albert was 5 (1896) with older siblings Thomas, William, Frederick, and Ada. (plus a house maid A. Green). It appears the pub closed due to competition from the Church Inn at 110 as by 1911 the family had moved to the Traveller's Call, Bredbury, Stockport (Still trading). Albert, then 15, was an apprentice fitter.
The only London connection is that his father was born in Pimlico. His mother was born in Glossop and the children in Heaton Norris, Stockport.
There appear to be no service records for Albert and his very short obituary in the Cheshire Year Book, 1918 states he was 21, in a Trench Mortar Battery. He was living in Levenshulme, Manchester and was formerly of Bredbury. He is buried in Bedford House Cemetery.
