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Son of James Black and Evangeline May (née Fielding) Young of Truro, Nova Scotia. Private Young enlisted on 25 November 1915 in Truro, Nova Scotia, stating he was employed as a cabinet maker and was single.
Brother of Private Harry L. Young (1499) who lost his life while a member of the Composite Battalion in Canada on 6 December 1917. He was travelling on a train into Halifax when the infamous Halifax Explosion occurred and Private Clifford Frank Young (488330) who died of wounds while serving with the Royal Canadian Regiment on 19 May 1917.
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Private David Young
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Private David Young
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Private David Young
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 527 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Wailly is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais about 6 kilometres south-west from Arras in the valley of the little river Crinchon. WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY stands above the village on its outskirts in part of the old orchard.
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