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Sunday 19 January 2014

* Private Charles Robert Young

Photo of Charles Young taken from "Our Heroes",
a supplement to 'Irish Life', December 4th, 1914.
Private Charles Robert Young, The Royal Army Medical Corps., 13th Field Ambulance Unit, died 27th September 1914, just two months, almost to the day, after The Great War began.

 He was 23 years old when he passed away at  St Nazaire Hospital, France, from wounds received at the Battle of the Aisne, an offensive which first began on the evening of 13 September. 

He had a naval career before the war, and was 4th Officer on the Steam Ship "Bray Head" at one point in his short life.

He was also the brother of Lance Corporal Hector Albert Young, who died in 1918.  Both were past pupils of The High School.

The loss to the family was further compounded by the loss of their father, Captain Benjamin Poyntz Young, Royal Army Medical Corps, (Licentiate of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians of Ireland,who died of paralysis in the Military Hospital, Cork, in 1916.  Source: Casualties of World War I, 1914-1918 (Ancestry.com) / Michael Pegum and Tom Burnell, war historians
But what was a Field Ambulance Unit? 
'The Field Ambulance was a mobile front line medical unit (it was not a vehicle). Most came under command of a Division, and had special responsibility for the care of casualties... in the Division. Each Division had three Field Ambulances. The theoretical capacity of the Field Ambulance was 150 casualties, but in battle many would simply be overwhelmed by numbers. The Ambulance was responsible for establishing and operating a number of points along the casualty evacuation chain... It also provided a Walking Wounded Collecting Station, as well as various rest areas and local sick rooms...'     

Race to the Sea 1914 - Wiki

The soldiers' duties ranged from fumigating to wagon-driving, stretcher-bearing to boot-making, working in the dispensary or cookhouse, or even on the sanitary squad.
High School past pupil, Private Charles Robert Young, was in the 13th Field ambulance Unit, attached to the 5th Division.   Source:  The Long, Long Trail


Charles Robert Young Private Royal Army Medical Corps 13th Field Amb 6483 Died 27/09/1914,  age 23 years,  (Enlisted location: Liverpool) 
Died of wounds. Son of Mrs. Anne Young, of 17, Sandymount Road, Dublin, and the late Captain Benjamin Poyntz Young (R.A.M.C.). 

Irish Times. Young-September 27, 1914, At St Nazaire Hospital, France, from wounds received at the Battle of the Aisne, Charles Robert Young,R.A.M.C., aged 23 years, dearly loved son of Benjamin Poyntz Young, L.R.C.S., and P.I(?)., and Annie Young, 21 Sandymount Road, Dublin. 
Buried 34. St. Nazaire (Toutes-Aides) Cemetery in France.
His Father;-
Young—In loving memory of Captain Benjamin Poyntz Young, RAMC, of 17 Sandymount Road, Dublin, who died 6th November, 1916, at the Military Hospital, Cork, and his son, Charles Robert, RAMC,., died of wounds received in the Battle of Aisne, 27th September, 1914. “Till the Resurrection Morn.”

Listed in both 1901 and 1911 Census born in Dublin, birth certificate shows place of birth was Cork. Dublin Benjamin Poyntz Young Captain Royal Army Medical Corps 06/11/1916, AGE 60 Cork 
(Birth certificate) Dublin.  Husband of Anne Young, of 17, Sandymount Road, Dublin. 

The Weekly Irish Times. November 11, 1916. Captain B Poyntz Young, R.A.M.C., 17 Sandymount Road, Dublin, is lying ill with paralysis at the Central Military Hospital, Cork. 

Irish Times. Young -November 6, 1916 died at Military Hospital, Cork Benjamin Poyntz Young, Captain R.A.M.C, of 17 Sandymount Road, Dublin. 

The Irish Times, November 5, 1921. Roll of Honour. In Memoriam. Young-In fond and ever loving memory of Captain Benjamin Poyntz Young,R.A.M.C., 17 Sandymount Road, Dublin, who died 6th November, 1916, at Military Hospital, Cork; also his two sons, Charles Robert,R.A.M.C., died of wounds received at first battle of Aisne, 27th September, 1914; hector Albert, Rifle Brigade, died of illness contracted on active service at Military Hospital, Tidworth, 30th December, 1918. 

The Irish Times, November 6, 1924. Roll of Honour.(1914-1918). In Memoriam. Young-In fond and ever loving memory of Captain Benjamin Poyntz Young,R.A.M.C., 17 Sandymount Road, Dublin, died at Military Hospital, Cork, 6th November, 1916,; also his sons, Charles Robert,R.A.M.C., died of wounds received at first battle of Aisne, 27th September, 1914; Hector Albert, Rifle Brigade, died of illness contracted on active service at Military Hospital, Tidworth, 30th December, 1918. 

Irish Independent; Captain B P Young, RAMC., of Sandymount Road, Dublin, who died at the Military Hospital, Cork, was a son of the late Mr T Young, D’Olier Street. Near North path. Drumcondra St. George's Burial Ground.
Source: Tom Burnell, war historian.

Find a grave (dot) com stats:

Birth: Oct. 9, 1890
County Dublin, Ireland
Death: Sep. 27, 1914
Derval, France


6483 Private Charles Robert Young.
The Royal Army Medical Corps.
13th Field Ambulance Unit.

Aged 23.

Son of Mrs. Anne Young, 17, Sandymount Road, Sandymount, Dublin, and the late Capt. Benjamin Poyntz Young, RAMC.

Charles Robert Young, son of Benjamin Young and Anne Grimes Young, of 26 Upper Dorset Street, was born on 9 October 1890, and was baptised at St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral [RC] on 27 October 1890.
[This appears to be somewhat unusual. Although recorded in the 1901 and 1911 census lists as "Church of Ireland" (Anglican) many of the couple's children were baptised as Roman Catholics.]


In the 1911 census, he was aged 20, and noted as "A Sea Apprentice".  Both  his father Benjamin Poyntz Young and his brother Hector Albert Young also died in WW1.

His name is recorded on the following War Memorials,
The High School, formerly of Harcourt Street, Dublin, but now at Rathgar, Dublin.
St. Matthew's Church War Memorial
Irishtown, Dublin.

Burial:
Saint Nazaire Toutes Aides Cemetery
Saint-Nazaire
Departement de la Loire-Atlantique
Pays de la Loire, France
Plot: B. 34.
Source:  Find a War Grave - Here 

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