YOUNG, Bruce Patrick
| Service Number: | 1697 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Coonamble, New South Wales, Australia, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Mudgee, Mid-Western Regional, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | 1951, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Gulgong and Mudgee District Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1697, 6th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 2 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 1697, 6th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 1697, 6th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
One of five brothers who enlisted, Bruce Patrick Young returned to Australia 15 May 1919.
His brothers:
3537 Pte James Henry Young, 1st Bn, died of wounds, 10 May 1916;
6880 Pte Harold Bede Young, 17th Bn, died of illness, Devonport, England, 8 January 1918;
4660 Pte Douglas Young, 3rd Bn, returned to Australia, 17 March 1917, disabled and incapicitated by wounds;
7565 Pte Wallace Young, 2nd Bn, twice enlisted having been sent home the first time with heart problems, returned to Australia 1919.
Uncles, (both were brothers of their father)
1775 Pte James Henry Young, 18th Bn, killed in action in France, 29 July 1916, age 49.
6104 Pte Alexander Robert Young, 2nd Bn, killed in action at Bullecourt, France, 4 May 1917, age 40.
Cousins:
3145 Pte Edwin George Young, 13th Bn, returned to Australia and died of illness, 1 January 1919;
Gerald Francis Regus Curran, enlisted at Liverpool 29th July 1915, died in camp of cerebro spinal meningitis 18th August 1915.
4240 Pte Christopher Reid Mahoney M.M., returned to Australia, 28 March 1919.
Bruce Patrick Young's father wrote in one of many letters to the AIF, “Where is B.P. Young? He may not loom large in Base Records eyes but he is still my son. One brother lies dead in France; one invalided home, another dangerously wounded in England, naturally his family wish to write to him. The opinion of the public is this, once a private has gone to the front, that the Military Department doesn’t give a damn about him any farther. You are a labor man and a worker; ask yourself if there would be any difficulty in tracing my boy if he wore a Sam Browne belt. There is no earthly use of McKinnon addressing mother’s meetings wearing two or three feathers with the motto “Serve” they won’t get recruits while neglect is shown to the parents.
How do you take this? On the referendum I voted Yes and fought so hard for it I fell out with old friends. 14 of my relatives went to the front-to the front, into the firing line. With the exception of my son, who is in hospital in Brighton, they all voted no! If you wish to make military affairs a success in Australia you must make the army a part of the people, it will not do to mould on the style of the English, “touch your hat to the squire Giles” nor on the Mrs. Cornwallis-West system of promotions.
If the staff is not up to it, for heaven’s sake appoint me to reorganise it and put it on a business basis.
Eternally yours W.R.Young”