Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC Headstones -
- Parkhurst Military Cemetery : Grave 19 : Unknown (Short) -

Location

In Parkhurst Military Cemetery, Forest Road, Parkhurst, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Private memorial - flat coffin stone

Grave location : Local plan : Grave 019

Headstone


 

Inscription


 
Further Information

Index Board entry 019 : unknown

August 2013 : inscriptions on the gravestone indicate that this marks of the grave of Joseph Short, and possibly also George Short.

Inscriptions are :
Joseph Short ?? ?? Master of Her Majesty's 99th Royal ?? (this is on the south side)
?? Parkhurst ?? January 1871 aged 20 years (on the north side)

Thanks to Caroline Dudley and Pauline Tyrrell for the transcriptions