Name
Albert Franklin Young
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/06/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Air Mechanic 1st Class
9177
Royal Air Force
Wireless School
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CUCKFIELD CEMETERY
13 (W).424.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Grammar School Memorial, Watford, Watford Grammar School Book of Remembrance
Pre War
Son of Albert Antonio and Kathleen (nee SMITH) YOUNG of Cuckfield.
His parents married between 1896 and 1900 in Berne, Switzerland. Kathleen died 1929 in the Cuckfield district aged 65; Albert died 1934 in the Brentford, Middx, district aged 69.
Albert was born 15 August 1899 in Marylebone, London, and baptised 8 June 1902 at All Souls, Langham Place, Marylebone. He attended Watford Grammar School from September 1913 to March 1915.
On the 1901 Census, aged 1 he lived in Marylebone, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, a pupil aged 11, he lived in Margate, Kent.
Wartime Service
He enlisted 28 September 1915 for the Duration of the War, and gained his last promotion 1 November 1917.
He was wounded in France when his aerodrome was bombed, and died at the 2nd London General Hospital.
Additional Information
The published Watford Grammar School Book of Remembrance entry reads:
“YOUNG, ALBERT FRANKLIN. School period: September, 1913, to March, 1915. 1st Air Mechanic, R.F.C. (Wireless Section). Wounded in France, March, 1918, when his aerodrome was bombed. Died in hospital in London, 9th June, 1918.”
Acknowledgments
Officially recorded as born in Watford and was living in x when he enlisted in .
