Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (2. Lieut. M. E. Young.) initials officially corrected; together with a Royal Humane Society Swimming Proficiency Medallion, silver, named ‘Marcus E. Young, Modern School, Bedford, 1916’, in Elkington, London, fitted case of issue; six silver sports medals, variously engraved ‘Senior Sculls B.M.S. 1915.’; ‘M. E. Young (St.), 1915 House Fours’; ‘1915 100 yds. Open 2nd. M. E. Young’; and three unnamed; various rank and unit insignia; and other ephemera, good very fine (lot) £70-£90

Marcus Ernest Young was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery (Special Reserve) on 12 March 1917, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 24 March 1918, and is buried in Chauny Communal Cemetery British Extension, France.