Young, AEF
(1897 - 1917)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
3rd September 1897
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1911 - 1916
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
151 Croxted Road, West Dulwich, SE21
REGIMENT
Royal Garrison Artillery
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
25th July 1917
AGE AT DEATH:
19
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Nieuport
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Coxyde Military Cemetery. I L 55
2nd Lieutenant Alan Edward Frushard Young
Alan was born in Southampton on September 3rd 1897, the fifth of sixth children born to Alfred Young, an ex-naval Captain who went on to work in the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, and his wife Elizabeth. He spent parts of his formative years in Liverpool, where he began his education, before the family moved to London in 1911. He went on to spend a short amount of time at the Prep, before coming to the College that September. He went on to stay at Dulwich for the next five years, before leaving in the summer of 1916, whilst a member of the Classical Remove.
After leaving the College Alan enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery, with whom he spent the next six months in England undergoing training, including at Winchester and undergoing gunnery tests on Salisbury Plain. In February 1917 he was awarded a commission, and gazetted to a position as 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery. He was sent to the front for the first time that May, and was attached to the 61st Siege Battery, with whom he saw his first action at Vimy Ridge. After just over two months at the front he was killed in action at Nieuport, on the Flanders coast, on July 25th 1917.
