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Personal data

• Name YOUNG
• Initials JA
• First name JOHN ALEXANDER
• Place of birth Durham
• Country South Africa
• Family Son of James Samuel and Helen Young, of Bow Butts, Sea View, Natal.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted on 30 January 1917 in Durham
• Service number 11196
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 4th South African Infantry Regiment
• Division - Brigade South African Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 9th Corps
• Other data related to military career Embarked at 24 February 1917

Death

• Type of wounds Died of wounds in the pelvis and abdomen
• Date of death 12 April 1918
• Died at the age of 19
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - H - 4A
• Sector front which the unit operates during this period Messines-Wijtschaete-Kemmel

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