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Military service
Service number:
430079
Age:
40
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd
Birth:
August 7, 1876
Galston, Scotland
Enlistment:
March 1, 1915
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
October 2, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. H. 14.
Additional information
Son of James Boyd Young and Mary Smith Young, of 22, Titchfield St., Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Private David Young
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Family photo
Photo of the Young Family, taken about 1896, before David emigrated form Galston in Ayrshire, Scotland to Canada. David is on the far left in the back row. -
Notice of death
Notice of death of David Yound in local newspaper in Ayrshire, Scotland. -
Letter
Letter from David Young to his sister Lizzie [Elizabeth McCallum, nee Young] -
Grave Marker
Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England
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Private David Young
Digital gallery of
Private David Young
Digital gallery of
Private David Young
Digital gallery of
Private David Young
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 186 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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