Valentine Gordon Chester Shortridge
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Lieutenant-Commander (retired) Valentine Gordon Chester Shortridge, R.N. (5 August, 1893 – 19 June, 1923) served in the Royal Navy.
Life & Career
The son of Thomas W. Shortridge, medical practioner.
Shortridge was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on
Placed on the Retired List as medically unfit on 18 September, 1922. Shortridge was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander (retired) on 15 February, 1923 but soon died at Ashover Sanatorium of tuberculosis in mid-1923.
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| Preceded by Alexander G. B. Wilson |
Captain of H.M. T.B. 22 29 Aug, 1917[1] – 31 Dec, 1917[Inference] |
Succeeded by Harry H. Dring |
Footnotes
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 399t.
