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Major-General Arthur Charles Shortt CB OBE (2 April 1899 – 1984) was a British Army officer who served as Director of Military Intelligence.
Military career
Shortt was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 26 August 1916 during the First World War. He served in the Second World War as Director of Technical Training at the War Office from May 1943 before seeing action in North-West Europe in 1944.
He became Director of Military Intelligence in December 1949 in which role he regarded the British Army of the Rhine Intelligence Service "as the most important Field Agency on the Soviet Army anywhere". He went on to be Head of the Joint Services Liaison Staff in Australia in September 1953 before retiring in April 1956.
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in June 1945 and a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1951 New Year Honours.
