Name
William Ross Young
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/11/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
265584
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 153.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Kings Langley Village Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Kings Langley, John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Apsley Mills, Apsley (*1), Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Abbots Langley memorials
Pre War
William Ross Young was born in Abbots Langley in 1889, the son of John and Caroline Louisa Young and baptised at Kings Langley on 24 August 1889.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at Primrose Hill, Abbots Langley, where his father was working as a Foreman Tailor. They had moved to Vicarage Lane, Kings Langley by 1901 and remained there on the 1911 Census at which time William was working as a Compositor at a General Printers (Apsley Mills).
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford and served with the Hertfordshire Regiment in France from 21 January 1915, initially under reg. no. 2658 which was later changed to 265584.
He was killed in action on 14 November 1917 when the Regiment were at Veldhoek, Belgium, to the east of Ypres, but has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £14 10s and pay owing of £8 9s 1d. His father received a pension of 6 shillings a week. *1 A W Young appears on the John Dickinson memorials, but it is not clear whether it is this man or William John Young as both appear to be a likely candidates.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
