About Colin Shortis
Lived 1934 – 2017 (aged 82). Colin Shortis was a British military officer.
Major-General Colin Terry Shortis (18 January 1934 – 8 January 2017) was a senior British Army officer.
Biography Born on 18 January 1934, Colin Shortis was educated at Bedford School. He enlisted in the British Army in 1951 and received his first commission in the Royal Fusiliers in 1953.
Shortis was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1980 and a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1988.
He was given the colonelcy of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment in 1984, holding the position until 1990.
He died on 8 January 2017 at the age of 82.
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British Army general
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Colin Shortis was born on 18 January 1934.
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Colin Shortis died on 8 January 2017 in Spain.
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