Josiah Henry YOUNG

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Service Number:	2507
Enlisted:	27 September 1915, Broadmeadows, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	31st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Rockley, New South Wales, 8 September 1889
Home Town:	Burraga, Oberon, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Platelayer
Died:	War Service Related (gas), Concorde Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, 17 February 1922, aged 32 years
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

27 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Broadmeadows, Victoria
14 Mar 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2507, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: ''
14 Mar 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2507, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Melbourne

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Born in the Rockley district near Bathurst NSW. Was aged 25 years and 10 months when he enlisted to serve on the 20th of July 1915.

He was gassed whilst in Egypt, in 1916, and was sent home, medically unfit. He died of his injuries in 1922 at Concorde Hospital in Sydney.