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Victor William YOUNG

Regimental number4639
Place of birthBacchus Marsh, Victoria
Other NamesWilliam Victor
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationBeltmaker
Address83 Morphett Street, Adelaide, South Australia
Marital statusMarried
Age at embarkation21
Height5' 10.5"
Weight133 lbs
Next of kinWife, Mrs E O Young, 83 Morphett Street, Adelaide, South Australia
Enlistment date6 October 1915
Place of enlistmentMelbourne, Victoria
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name7th Battalion, 14th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/24/4
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A32 Themistocles on 28 January 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll60th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 19 July 1916
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsV.C. Corner (Panel No 4), Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
171
Family/military connectionsBrother: 2897 Pte Roy Wilkie YOUNG, 2nd Signal Squadron, returned to Australia 16 March 1919.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Embarked Melbourne, 28 January 1916; disembarked Suez, 28 February 1916.

Transferred to 58th Bn, 26 March 1916; taken on strength, Ferry Post, 1 April 1916.

Transferred to 60th Bn, 2 April 1916; taken on strength, Ferry Post, 3 April 1916.

Admitted to 8th Australian Field Ambulance, 23 April 1916 (diarrhoea); discharged to duty, and rejoined Bn, Duntroon Plateau, 29 April 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.

Reported missing, 19 July 1916.

Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 4 August 1917, pronounced fate as 'killed in action, 19 July 1916'.

Note, Red Cross File No 3041005: 'No trace Germany[.] Cert. by Capt. Mills 10-10-19.'

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Mother wrote to Base Records (? December 1917), seeking the death certificate, and referred to 'my other two sons, one is on active service abroad and the other is is Camp in South Australia'.
Miscellaneous detailsWife subsequently died: next of kin then listed as mother, Mrs Kate Young, 106 Madeline Street, Carlton, Victoria. Mother's address, September 1916, 169 Queensberry Street, Carlton, Victoria. Pension granted to mother as from 8 November 1916, at 62 Elgin Street, Carlton, Victoria. Mother's address was subsequently (1920) Canada Hotel, Madeline Street, Carlton, Victoria, and (1923) 6 Central Flats, Robe Street, St Kilda, Victoria. Second Attestation Form lists next of kin as father, William Young, 7 Lethbridge Street, Moonee Ponds, Victoria (subsequently noted as died). Attestation Form(s) have some different details: height 5' 6.5"; weight 140 lbs; religion Roman Catholic; occupation horse breaker
SourcesNAA: B2455, YOUNG Victor William
Red Cross File No 3041005

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