YOUNG, Gilbert
| Service Number: | 2268 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 May 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 59th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia, 1895 |
| Home Town: | Richmond (V), Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Sawyer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 8 March 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Guards Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Picardie Plot II, Row D, Grave 5, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 10 May 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2268, 59th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 10 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2268, 59th Infantry Battalion | |
| 1 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 2268, 59th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 2268, 59th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Gilbert Young was the son of Henry Martini Westphalen Young and Mary Jane Young of Richmond, Victoria. His father, Henry had perished in a cyclone whilst pearling off the coast of Broome, Western Australia during 1908.
Gilbert’s brother, 1157 Pte. Ivar Young 8th Battalion AIF was killed in action at Gallipoli on 28 June 1915, aged 22.
His mother, Mary Young, was well acquainted to tragic loss. One of her children was drowned in Richmond during 1898, at eight years of age, her husband drowned in 1908, her daughter Hilda died in 1918 aged 24, and she lost two sons in the war, in 1915 and 1917.
Mary Young was awarded a pension of two pounds per fortnight from October 1915 for the loss of Ivar Young. She was awarded another two pounds per fortnight from May 1917 as a result of the death of her son Gilbert Young.
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