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Thomas Lowbridge YOUNG

Regimental number2248
Place of birthBootle, Liverpool, England
SchoolTrent College, Derbyshire, England
Other trainingBachelor of Arts, Cambridge College, England
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationSchoolmaster
AddressShaftesbury Hotel, Perth, Western Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation30
Next of kinFather, Thomas Frederick Young, Gambier Terrace, Liverpool
Enlistment date29 July 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll26 July 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name28th Battalion, 4th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/45/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on 1 October 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll28th Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular"Went from Chine to Australia after the outbreak of the war ad after doing another man's work at a College in Tasmania finally went to Perth where he enlisted. Was badly wounded and went to England in 1916 returning to the front in November, where he later died of wounds." [Sister: Mary Young of Victoria]
FateDied of wounds 2 January 1917
Place of death or woundingVille-Sur-Somme, France
Age at death32
Age at death from cemetery records33
Place of burialHeilly Station Cemetery (Plot VI, Row H, Grave No. 14), Mericourt-L'Abbe, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
115
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Father: Thomas F. Young, 2130 Central Avenue, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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