Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. R. Young, Army Service Corps, who died of disease in Salonika on 19 November 1918

British War and Victory Medals (M2-203701 Pte. J. R. Young. A.S.C.) with lid of named card box of issue, with Record Office enclosure in outer envelope addressed to ‘Mr. J. Young, 1 McLaren Road, Edinburgh’; Memorial Plaque (James Ronald Young) in card envelope; Memorial Scroll ‘Pte. James Ronald Young, Royal Army Service Corps’, in card tube holder, this similarly addressed, extremely fine (4) £140-£180

James Ronald Young was born in Edinburgh and attested there for the Army Service Corps. He served during the Great War with the 780th Mechanical Transport Company in Salonika, and died of pneumonia at the Base General Hospital on 19 November 1918. In a letter written to the recipient’s mother by his Commanding Officer, Young ‘was always a good soldier, bright, cheerful, and conscientious in carrying out his duties, though often most arduous. His death was very sudden as it usually is with pneumonia. He reported sick to the Doctor on the 13th of November, and as there was no improvement in his condition he was evacuated to the Clearing Station on the 15th and died at the Base General Hospital on the 19th.’

Young was buried at Mikra British Cemetery, Salonika, Greece.

Sold with the recipient’s Army Service Corps cap badge, a ‘trench art’ fashioned identity badge; letter to the recipient’s mother informing her of her son’s death; and Memorial notice letter.