Francis Edward Young
Memorial: Charfield - Wotton Road
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Lance Serjeant 240115
Parents: James and Eliza Jane Young
Home address: New Town, Charfield, Glos
Pre-war occupation: Worked as a bone turner with Tubbs Lewis & Co.
Date of birth: 1895
Place of birth: Charfield
Date of death: 02/12/1917
Buried/Commemorated at: Cambrai Memorial (Panel 6.), Louveral France
Age: 22
Further information:
Francis Edward Young was born in 1895 to parents, James and Eliza Young of New Town, Charfield.
Francis served with the 2nd/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment as a Lance Serjeant, he died on the 2nd December 1917 aged 22 years and is remembered on the Cambrai Memorial, Louveral, France.
He died when his battalion was resting near an ammunition dump on the way to the front lines. It blew up without warning at 2.30am and he has no known grave.