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Latest revision as of 16:31, 28 February 2023
Personnel Entry
Name Young Herbert Cecil
Army number 4459455 (the 1942 "missing" exercise shows 4459485 in some documents but has been corrected later).
Rank Private.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Not yet known.
Age (At time of death). Not yet known.
Unit Joined The Durham Light Infantry - enlisted 17/1/1940, Posted ? 12th Bn DLI. Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France. Evacuated to the UK via Dunkirk. Served ? Iceland. Posted to the 30th Battalion Black Watch by August 1942. . Transferred to the Army Catering Corps 3/9/42, under Authority:- ACI's 626/39/1305/41 and Off i/c Recs No. 1/ACC/Perth/249 dated 11/9/42, Part II Order 30th Bn 222/42. Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 (xvi) 25/12/1944.
Company/Battery A Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade Probably 1/2/1940, otherwise via 12th Bn DLI on 17/1/1940.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not so far as is known.
Prisoner of War No.
Died/Killed in action Date of death not known.
Home address 9, Harrow St. Gateshead.
Source table 1TS
