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Corporal SIDNEY JOHNSTONE YOUNG

Service Number: 5504016
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Corps of Military Police

Date of Death

Died 10 May 1942

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SHAFTESBURY BOROUGH CEMETERY

C. of E. Sec. Grave 56.

United Kingdom

Photos taken by DG in UK Area - 9 April 2013: Shaftesbury Borough Cemetery, Dorset (Note: many of the headstones in this set were photographed by DG to show the extent to which their condition had deteriorated, where this is apparent use caution if sharing them externally).

Photographer: Alan Pateman-Jones

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Johnstone Young and Adelaide Ethel Young; husband of Violet Constance Evelyn Young, of Shaftesbury.
  • Personal Inscription TIME PASSES, MEMORIES LINGER, LOVE REMAINS
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Buried or commemorated at

SHAFTESBURY BOROUGH CEMETERY
Dorset United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 39
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