Name
John Phillip Young
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/11/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
266714
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st/1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
XLIX. F. 25.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born on 29 May 1896 and baptised on 28 Jun 1896 in Hoddesdon son of Thomas and Louisa (Morley) Young and was living in Burford Street, Hoddesdon in 1901 and in 12 Amwell Street, Hoddesdon in 1911. He was a greengrocer’s boy.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford, formerly 5164 Hertfordshire Regiment before renumbering as 266714 and then transferred as 620091 to the 274th POW Company, Labour Corps. He died in France at the end of War.
Additional Information
Service number 266714 or possibly 2748.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
