His family returned to Australia and settled in Tasmania, where Cecil was rector of St George’s Battery Point from 1931.

[2] In January 1934, Cecil was appointed rector of St Andrew's Church, Wahroonga, and the family moved to Sydney.

[4] At 19, he joined the Australian Army with an officer's commission and served with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan from 1946 to 1948.

[7] Returning to Australia, Short was appointed general secretary to the Church Missionary Society in New South Wales.

[13] After retiring in 1992, Short filled various roles, at St. John's Shaughnessy in Vancouver, as Bishop of Wollongong,[citation needed] and in parish ministry in Hobart, Geraldton, Berry and Kangaroo Valley.