The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private L Young

Private Leonard YOUNG, G/19110, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 18th January 1917.

Born Tunbridge Wells, Kent, son of Charles and Emily Young, 9 Albert Street, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

1911 Census - 9 Albert Street, Tunbridge Wells, Kent - Charles Young, head, age 56, married, gas fitter, Gas Company, Tunbridge Wells, worker, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; E Young, wife, age 53, married 34 years, 10 children, 9 still alive, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Ernest Young, son, age 24, single, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Leonard Young, son, age 22, single, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Lilly Young, daughter, age 14, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Violet Young, daughter, age 12, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Frederick Williams, grandson, age 5, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

1st December 1912, Trinity Church, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, married Adeline Oxley, spinster, 29A Belgrave Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. / 2, Albert Cottages, Camden Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Children - Charles Leonard Young, born 30th May 1913, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, died 1920 June Tonbridge District, age 6; Margaret Alice Young, born 19th September 1914, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Enlisted Tunbridge Wells, Kent, age 28 years & 1 month, height 5ft 5 inches, weight 112lbs. Resided 29A Belgrave Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Formerly fishmonger.2

Home 11th December 1915 to 5th December 1916; BEF 26th December 1916 to 18th January 1917.

11th December 1915, enlisted West Kent Queens Own Yeomanry; 12th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 30th May 1916, mobilized; 31st May 1916, posted to Admin Centre, West Kent Queens Own Yeomanry, Service No.2598; 5th December 1916, embarked; 6th December 1916, transferred to 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th December 1916, posted to 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, BEF.

6th August 1917, pension of 22/11 a week awarded to widow and two children.

1919 December, Tonbridge Registration District, Adeline |Young, married James Cousins.

26th June 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Adeline Cousins, 2, Albert Cottages; Children, Margaret A Young, 19th September 1914, 2, Albert Cottages; Father, Charles Young, 9 Albert Street; Mother, Emily Young, 9 Albert Street; Brothers - Ernest Young, age 34?, 7 Western Road, Southborough, Kent; Sisters - Mabel Goddard, age 36, 13 Calverley Street; Beatrice Young, age 26, 9 Albert Street; Violet Young, age 22, 9 Albert Street.

Buried at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, L. 36., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Commemorated Tunbridge Wells War Memorial.

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