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MORPETH

Young, R., Pte., 1918
In Five Points Cemetery, Lechelle is the Commonwealth War Grave of 243201 Private Robert Young, serving with the Northumberland Fusiliers who died 28/09/1918.

From an unrecorded source:

"In memoriam.
Private Robert Young 12/13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, lost his life aged 28, killed in action on 28th September 1918. The dreaded news was delivered to his mother Mrs. Elspeth Young oif 4 Lawson's Buildings, Wellway, with an assurance that he 'had not suffered'."

'Let us do better their children's children than we did for them.' Richard Holmes, Military Historian.

Robert Young is remembered in Morpeth on M17.01 and M17.09.


The CWGC entry for Private Young

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