The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H A Young

Private Harold Alfred YOUNG, G/20055, 1st Battalion Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death assumed as on or after, 26th October 1917.

Born Manchester, Lancashire,

25th November 1915,Worsbrough, married Mable Bramley, 120 Sheffield Road, Birdwell, Lancashire. / 14 Chapel Street, Birdwell, Lancashire.

Enlisted Hayland, Lancashire. Resided Birdwell, Lancashire.

Home, 9th February 1916 to 11th October 1917; BEF, 12th October 1917 to 26th October 1917.

9th February 1916, enlisted Hayland, Lancashire; 10th February 1916, transferred to Army Reserve; 23rd May 1917, Pontefract, mobilized; 24th May 1917, posted No.3. Depot; 26th May 1917, posted 3rd Reserve Calvary Regiment, Service No.37925; 1st September 1917, transferred 11 Fusiliers & posted 5th Reserve Battalion, London Regiment; 12th October 1917, BEF, posted 2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers; 14th October 1917, transferred and posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment26th October 1917, posted missing.

23rd June 1918, date when Separation Allowance of 12/6 a week, payable to wife will cease.

24th June 1918, pension of 13/9 a week awarded to widow.

Buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery, VIII. L. 8., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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