Trooper George Buchanan Young (1877-1955)

Date1955DescriptionScottish born (Uddington 14/9/1877) George Buchanan Young (43142) (18771955) enlisted at the age of 39 in December 1916. He was of fair complexion, grey eyes and brown hair and five foot six inches tall. He listed his occupation as “gardener” and considered himself an Anglican…Military Record here: http://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE21259276 .
He was a married man (Margaret Scott) with two children (George Buchanan 18/1/1908 and Isabel Agnes 1/6/1909)…He was posted overseas on Troopship 98, disembarking at Suez on December 1917 and posted to the Wellington Mounted Rifles the following month…From “Trooper” he was promoted several times, almost immediately to Lance Corporal (February 1917), then Corporal that same month and Sergeant in May 1917. By December he was returned to Corporal and in January of 1918 at own request became simply Trooper Young again, though an Acting Corporal in April 1918. For a time in January he was a Gas Instructor in Rafa. During his time in Egypt his military record shows we at various times at Moascar, Abbassia, Ismailia, Gaza, Kaulasa and Alexandria. November 1918 admitted with severe "Maleria, spent time aboard Hospital Ship Dunlace Castle before being admitted to Hornchurch Hospital in England…Discharged in November 1919 as “no longer physically fit for war service on account of illness contracted on active service” and returned to New Zealand aboard S.S. Mamari…George died in Napier in 1955.
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