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Military service
Service number:
429568
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
November 28, 1898
Death:
February 27, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of James Wilson Young and Amy Young, of 1002, Wharf St., Victoria, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private James Edward Young
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of March 16, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y82uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private James Edward Young
Digital gallery of
Private James Edward Young
Digital gallery of
Private James Edward Young
Digital gallery of
Private James Edward Young
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 354 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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