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Private Clifford Frank Young

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Military service

Service number: 488330
Age: 20
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: The Royal Canadian Regiment
Birth: February 5, 1897 Milford, Hants County, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: June 16, 1916 Nova Scotia
Death: May 19, 1917

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. S. 13.
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Born 5 February 1897 in Milford, Hants County, Nova Scotia. Son of James B. and Evangeline Young, Truro, Nova Scotia. Private Young enlisted in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 16 June 1916. He stated he was a cabinet maker and single.

Brother of Private David Young (715010) of the 25th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, Nova Scotia Regiment who died of wounds on 19 May 1917 and Private Harry L. Young, who was with the Canadian Militia, Composite Battalion on a train bound for Halifax when the infamous Halifax Explosion occurred on 6 December 1917.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 354 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Noeux-les-Mines is a town 6 kilometres south of Bethune on the main road to Arras. The Communal Cemetery is on the northern side of the town, on the south-east side of the road to Labourse.

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