James Edwin Youngs

Service No. S/27526

Rifleman, Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion

Killed in action on 1 November 1918, aged about 25

Born in Clapham; lived in Camberwell, Surrey; enlisted in Lambeth

Remembered at Valenciennes (St. Roch) Communal Cemetery, Nord, France

British Army Service Records

Lived at 22 Grove Hil Road, Denmark Hill

12 December 1915 Joined

30 October 1916 Approved

18 January 1917 Joined battalion

5 March 1917 Admitted to hospital - cause illegible

5 March 1917 Discharged

14 August 1917 Wounded (GSW buttock)

16 August 1917 Hospital

21 September 1917 Posted to Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion

21 September 1917 Proceded to unit

3 July 1918 Hospital - bronchitis, influenza and penumonia

7 October 1918 Back with Battalion

Medical examination at Camberwell 31 August 1916

5 feet 7 half inches

9.7 stone

chest measurement 37 inches + [illegible] expansion

"Good" physical development

Offences

10 April 1917 Unshaven on parade

3 days confined to barracks

Wife

Fanny May Young

5 Polygon, Clapham Common

23 shillings separation allowance

3s 6d allotment of pay

Son

John Richard James Youngs born 2 July 1916

Effects

Letters

Photos

Pipe

Religious book

Watch

Metal match box cover

Leather chest protector

Pension

20s 5 d a week from 2 June 1919 for widow and child

Form W5080

Youngs' father lived with his daughter and daughter-in-law (and grandson)