Alexander Livingstone YOUNG

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YOUNG, Alexander Livingstone

Service Number:	3330
Enlisted:	7 September 1915, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born:	Wallaroo, South Australia, 2 March 1882
Home Town:	College Park, Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Accountant
Died:	Sudden, "Erlstern" Hospital, Marlborough Street, College Park, South Australia, 14 February 1946, aged 63 years
Cemetery:	North Road Cemetery, Nailsworth, South Australia Burial#=13646. P
Memorials:	St Peters Alexander Livingstone Young Memorial Arch and Gates, Wallaroo WW1 Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

7 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3330, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Adelaide, SA
27 Oct 1915:	Involvement Private, 3330, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
27 Oct 1915:	Embarked Private, 3330, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Benalla, Adelaide
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement Sergeant, 3330
16 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3330

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Biography contributed by David Cree

Alexander Livingstone Young Memorial Arch and Gates.

21 Second Avenue St Peters

In December 1952 the Premier of South Australia, Thomas Playford (https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/356459) officially opened the new clubrooms of the St Peters sub-branch of the RSL. The new building provided a permanent home for the local RSL, which, since the end of the Great War, had met in the Banquet Room of the St Peters Town Hall.

The new building was erected on Council owned land at 21 Second Avenue St Peters, now known as Otto Park.(https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131196583)

In the following year a memorial arch and gates were erected at the entrance to the park. The structure was funded by a donation from Elsie Maude Harriet Young in memory to her husband Alexander Livingstone Young. (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48930935)

Alexander Young, an accountant, served in the 16th Infantry Battalion during the Great War and was an active member of the St Peters RSL from the time of his discharge in 1919 until his death in 1946.

Elsie and Alexander Young owned the nearby Elstern Private Hospital in Baliol Street College Park, where Elsie Young was the Matron.

The St Peters RSL closed in 2010 and the building was later demolished, however, the memorial arch and gates, together with a memorial plaque, remain at the entrance to Otto Park.

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