In memory of
Private
Theodore George Young
who died on November 23, 1918
Private
Theodore George Young
who died on November 23, 1918
Military Service:
- Service Number: 3214692
- Force: Army
- Unit: Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
- Division: 21st Reserve Bn.
Additional Information:
- Date and Place of Birth: March 12, 1884
- Cemetery: BODELWYDDAN (ST. MARGARET) CHURCHYARD; Flintshire, United Kingdom
- Grave Reference: 468.
Unlike most of the soldiers I've researched, Theodore George Young was drafted to the Canadian forces, and signed up in Edmonton AB in June1918. At 34 he was considerably older as well.
Theodore George Young was born in York (Toronto) on March 12 1884, to Samuel Young and Catherine Louisa Einboden. I was able to find him on the 1891 and 1901 Canadian census still in Toronto with his parents and 8 siblings but by 1911 he was no longer living at home and there are no Theo's and far too many George Young's to be certain which, if any are him.
Theodore Young passed his army physical in July of 1918 and was presumably sent overseas shortly after. Without access to more of his military records it's impossible to know if he ever saw combat. Thirteen days after the armistice on 11 November, Theodore Young died of influenza and cardiac arrest and was buried in a parish churchyard in Wales, UK.
Theodore George Young died November 23, 1818
