William Shorter

Probably William Henry Shorter, builder's foreman born in 1873/4 in Wheatley, son of Thomas and Mary Ann, which would make him a brother of Bertie and a James Shorter. He attended Wheatley Elementary school in 1883. In 1901 he was living at 43 Oxford Gardens, Chiswick, London with his wife Annie Emily. There is a record of service in the Grenadier Guards by a William Henry Shorter as a Private in 1917, aged 44.