Allan WEBSTER YOUNG

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WEBSTER YOUNG, Allan

Service Numbers:	497126, TX11955
Enlisted:	12 June 1940, 22 Light Horse
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia, 18 August 1922
Home Town:	Nietta, Central Coast, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Timber Worker
Died:	Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia, 1998, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Mersey Vale Memorial Park Cemetery, Tasmania
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World War 2 Service

12 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, 497126, 22 Light Horse
1 Oct 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, TX11955
14 Nov 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, TX11955

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Allan Webster-Young (Service No:TX11955) first enlisted in the Militia on 12 June 1940 (Service No:497126) and was attached to 22 Light Horse at Mona Vale Camp, Tasmania when he enlisted in the AIF. Sergeant Webster-Young was attached to 22 Australian Motor Regiment when he was Discharged on 14 November 1944.

Born in 1922 in Scottsdale Tasmania, Allan was the youngest of two children of Crayston Webster Young (b1877 in Breconshire, Wales) and second wife Ivy Maud Young (b1890 at Cape Colony in South Africa). Crayston was raised in Scotland and served in the Boer War - he and Ivy married in 1912 in Johannesburg, South Africa. By the early 1920s Crayston and ivy had settled at Scottsdale in Tasmania, and lived in Nietta where Crayston was a Storekeeper, Postmaster and Mail Contractor.

Allan was a Timber Worker in Nietta when he enlisted in the Militia in 1940, and follwoing his Discharge settled in Nietta. In 1950 he married Louisa Lily Mansfield (b1919 in LaTrobe, Tasmania) - Louisa was a Teacher in Ulverstone. Allan and Louisa lived in Nietta where Allan was a Timber Worker and in the early 1970s they moved to Sprint where Allan was a Proprietor and Louisa returned to Teaching. Louisa died in 1993 and Allan in 1998.

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