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VC1086 Frank Edward Young
David
Name Frank Edward Young No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1086 Awards VC
Regiment Hertfordshire Regiment, 1st Battalion, No. 4 Company
Later
Now Royal Anglian Regiment
Rank VC Won Second Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Second Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Cherat, North West Province, India (now Pakistan)
Place Of Death Near Havrincourt, France
Buried/Location Ashes Hermies Hill British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, 8 miles east of Bapaume, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 3, Row B, Grave 5
Gazetted 14 December 1918
VC Presented 1 March 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his parents, Captain & Mrs F Young
Memorials
P Headstone, Hermies Hill British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, 8 miles east of Bapaume, Pas de Calais, France
Named on Regimental War Memorial, All Saint's Church, Hertford, Hertfordshire
P Named on War Memorial, Bedford Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Memorial Plaque, Church of the Holy Saviour, Radcliffe Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
P Named on War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, by War Memorial, St Marys Church, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Ring of Remembrance (L'Anneau de la Mémoire), Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Pas-de-Calais, France
P Named on Boardwalk, Lochnagar Crater, Somme, France
P Alfred Young Court, Bedford Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
By The Way…
He was in the same battalion as his father and they fought together at the battles of La Bassee, Festubert and Loos
VC Held By
Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, Luton Museum, Wardown Park, Luton, Bedfordshire, England
BORN 2 October 1895
DIED 18 September 1918 AGE 22
VC Won 18 September 1918 AGE 22
Place VC Won Near Harvincourt, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
