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Military service
Service number:
B/72976
Age:
38
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
48th Highlanders of Canada
Birth:
December 17, 1904
Middlesborough, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
September 9, 1939
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
July 20, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
C. B. 275.
Additional information
Son of Charles and Annie Louisa Young; husband of Kathleen Dorothy Leslie Young, of Gilford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Ernest Young
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Headstone of George E. Young
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Entrance
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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View of Mt. Enna
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Photo of GEORGE ERNEST YOUNG
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Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Badge
In memory of the members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada who went to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the 48th Highlanders Museum, 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, ON -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada who went to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the 48th Highlanders Museum, 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, ON From the Toronto Star August 10 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private George Ernest Young
Digital gallery of
Private George Ernest Young
Digital gallery of
Private George Ernest Young
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 229 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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