| Regimental number | 3497 |
| Place of birth | Hobart, Tasmania |
| School | Battery Point State School, Tasmania |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Carpenter |
| Address | 7 Regent Street, Sandy Bay, Tasmania |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 20.4 |
| Height | 5' 6.25" |
| Weight | 150 lbs |
| Next of kin | Father, Tasman Young, 7 Regent Street, Sandy Bay, Tasmania |
| Previous military service | Served in school cadets and in the R.A.N. Reserve. |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | Sapper |
| Unit name | 6th Field Company Engineers |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 14/25/1 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A40 Ceramic on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 6th Field Company Engineers |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | Westhoek, Ypres, Belgium |
| Age at death | 22 |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 22 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 25 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Commemorated in Cornelian Bay Cemetery, Hobart, Tasmania. Parents: Tasman (d. 9 July 1921, aged 64; bu. Cornelian Bay Cemetery) and Selina YOUNG (d. 22 July 1953, aged 97; bu. Cornelian Bay Cemetery) |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 19 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 27 March 1916. Found guilty, 7 July 1916, of conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline in that he failed to carry out instructions: awarded 7 days' Field Punishment No 2. Found guilty, 15 August 1916, of disobedience of orders in that lights were not put out at 9.30 pm: forfeited 1 day's pay. Admitted to 2nd Divisional Rest Station, Belgium, 3 October 1916 (influenza); discharged to duty, 7 October 1916; rejoined unit same day. Found guilty, 1 January 1917, of conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline in that he left his work without permission, 31 December 1916: forfeited 2 days' pay. On leave to England, 17 May 1917; rejoined unit from leave, 3 June 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 17 September 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
| Sources | NAA: B2455, YOUNG Gilbert Stanley |