Name
Cyril Ernest Young
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
3251
Royal Fusiliers *1
11th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY, MAMETZ
IV. C. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 11 Mar 1896 in Westminster, London son of Ernest and Mrs. L. J. (Kirk) Young later of 4 Thornbury Road, Clapham Park, London.
Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1906-12 he then became staff clerk to the Metropolitan Asylum Board.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 8 Sep 1914 at Walham, entered France on 17 Aug 1915 and was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He was shot about half way across no-man’s land in the first assault wave.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
