Robert Mostyn YOUNG

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YOUNG, Robert Mostyn

Service Number:	WX2311
Enlisted:	25 April 1940, Northam, Western Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/11th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Geraldton, Western Australia, 13 September 1915
Home Town:	Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Killed in Action, Crete, Crete, Greece, 28 May 1941, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Athens Memorial, Athens, Greece
Memorials:	Athens Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kalgoorlie Hospital Memorial Rose Garden

World War 2 Service

25 Apr 1940:	Enlisted Private, WX2311, Northam, Western Australia
25 Apr 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX2311, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion
10 Apr 1941:	Involvement Private, WX2311, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion, Siege of Tobruk
28 May 1941:	Involvement Private, WX2311, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion, Middle East / Mediterranean Theatre

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

"...WX2311 Private Robert Mostyn Young, 2/11th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Young, aged 25, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 28 May 1941. He was the son of Percy Robert and Eulalie Annie Young, of Kalgoorlie, WA. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 12..." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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