Walter Gordon YOUNG

YOUNG, Walter Gordon

Service Number: 4156
Enlisted: 31 December 1915, Place of enlistment - Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank: Sapper
Last Unit: 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company)
Born: Creswick, Victoria, 1885
Home Town: Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling: State School
Occupation: Pipe Layer
Died: Influenza, Germany, 18 November 1917
Cemetery: Cologne Southern Cemetery
Plot XIV, Row G, Grave 15 Sapper Young was originally buried in Grave 29 at the Military Cemetery Gerolstein, Rhine Province, Germany before being exhumed and move to the Cologne Southern Cemetery after Armistice., Cologne Southern Cemetery, Cologne, Germany
Memorials: Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Broken Hill War Memorial
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World War 1 Service

31 Dec 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 4156, Place of enlistment - Adelaide, South Australia
25 May 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 4156, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), Embarked on HMAT 'A69' Warilda from Melbourne --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: ''
10 Jul 1917: Imprisoned Interred at Reserve Lazarett III Eppendorfer, Hamburg (Lazarett denoted a military hospital for POWs)
18 Nov 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 4156, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4156 awm_unit: 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1917-11-18

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Walter Gordon YOUNG was born in Creswick, Victoria in 1885

His parents were William Pollard YOUNG & Lavinia SANDERS