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Alexander Young

In memory of:

Major Alexander Young

June 3, 1916

Military Service


Age:

46

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)

Division:

52nd Bn.

Additional Information


Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Son of the late Robert Young, of Aberdeen, Scotland; husband of Annie Gardiner (formerly Young), of 89, Lockwell Avenue, Quebec. Twenty-four years with the Royal Canadian Regt. in Toronto and Quebec. Served in the South African Campaign.

Commemorated on Page 186 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30

Location:


The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:


TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.

Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:

HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.

The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Memorial– Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Photo of Alexander Young– Alexander and Annie Young at the train station 1914.  This would be the last photo of husband and wife before his death in 1916, taken by his daughter Florence.
  • Photo of Alexander Young– This is the last photo taken of Major Young before his death in 1916.  His wife Annie and daughter Florence were seeing him off at the train station.
  • Photo of Alexander Young– This is the only photo I have of my Great Grandfather, Major Alexander Young.  The date is unknown to me.
  • Newspaper Clipping– Newspaper article - part one of two.
  • Newspaper Clipping– Newspaper article - part two of two.
  • Photo of Alexander Young– Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

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