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Corporal WILLIAM SWINTON YOUNG

Service Number: B/21414
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 November 1916

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

I. R. 26A.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Ella Young, of Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription UNTIL THE DAY DAWN AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
FOR EVERMORE: STORIES OF THE FALLEN
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Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3036
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