Flying Officer Murray Geoffrey Short enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force on 5 February 1942, after a period of service with the Australian Army. He served with 82 Squadron during the Second World War, and continued to serve with the squadron after the war as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan. On 18 March 1946, Flying Officer Short was piloting a Mustang aircraft for a ferry flight from Labuan, Borneo, to Bofu, Japan, when he was caught in bad weather and crashed on the shores of Shikoku. He is buried at Yokohama War Cemetery, Japan.