Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5326458

Reference: WO372/24

Title: Medal Index Card

Description: Medal index cards were created by the Army Medal Office towards the end of the First World War. They record the medals that men and women who served in the First World War were entitled to claim.

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UPP: GBM/MCI/5332309

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9235054

Title: CWGC

Description: Death ?

Connected by: john14663

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ID: 9563652

Title: Neville Young 1893-1915

Description: Portrait of Neville in Leinster uniform

Connected by: Rachel58000

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ID: 9563661

Title: Neville Young 1893-1915

Description: Portrait of Neville in Leinster uniform, holding helmet and dress sword

Connected by: Rachel58000

Additional: This portrait of Neville, which depicts him in his Leinster uniform, holding his helmet and his dress sword, was one of the few items which were saved when Culdaff House was burned down by raiders on 26 May 1922. The helmet and sword also survived the fire.The house was rebuilt in 1927, and Neville’s portrait was given pride of place. Having survived the raid and the fire, the canvas was damaged in the 1950s when Neville’s great-nephew Stanley Winton held an impromptu sword-fight with him. The helmet and sword provided hours of fun to younger generations playing in the woods at Culdaff; the helmet eventually disintegrated but the sword remains intact.

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ID: 9563680

Title: Birth Certificate for G N 'G' Young, b.17 Mar 1893

Description: Neville, the son of George Lawrence Young, a Land Agent, and his wife Annie Young (nee Harvey), was born at Millmount, Ballygrooby, Drummaul, Randalstown, Co Antrim, Ireland, on 17 March 1893

Connected by: Rachel58000

Additional: Known as 'Neville', his 3rd name was registered at birth as 'Gardiner'; however it soon became 'Patrick'. (Later documents show his initials as 'GNP'; 'George Neville Patrick Young' is the name on his memorial in Culdaff Church)

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ID: 9563688

Title: Memorial to GNP Young

Description: Memorial to Lieut George Neville Patrick Young, St Buadan's Church, Culdaff, Co Donegal, Ireland

Connected by: Rachel58000

Additional: Inscription: ‘In everlasting remembrance of Lieut George Neville Patrick Young, who died at Wimereux, 25th July 1915, aged 22, from wounds received in action near Hooge on 12th July. Awarded Military Cross for actions September 27th and October 20th 1914.’

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ID: 9563725

Title: Neville's grave at Wimereux

Description: Neville's grave at Wimereux, Pas de Calais, France

Connected by: Rachel58000

Additional: Neville was ‘wounded in the shoulder by shrapnel’ on the night of 10th/11th July, during fighting near Hooge, a village on the Menin road, about two miles east of Ypres, in Belgium. At the time it seemed to be a ‘small’ piece of shrapnel, and Neville, who was due to go home on leave the following day, went off to the dressing station, saying ‘Jammy one’. He was taken to No. 14 General Hospital at Wimereux, a village resort on the French coast, where many of the hotels had been requisitioned for use as hospitals. No 14 was split across three neighbouring buildings: Hotel Splendide, The Casino and the Victoria Hotel.Not considered serious at first, Neville’s injury became fatal when tetanus set in. His family was notified and his father George was permitted to cross the Channel to Boulogne. George was with Neville when he died, aged 22, on Sunday, 25 July 1915, about a fortnight after receiving his injury.Due to the sandy soil at Wimereux the CWG headstones lie flat on the graves

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ID: 9563903

Name: Military Cross

Title: Gazette, 18 Feb 1915

Description: 2nd Lieut (temp. Lt) G N G Young awarded Military Cross

Connected by: Rachel58000

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29074/supplement/1697
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Additional: Names + military details confirm the match

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ID: 9563962

Title: Hotel Splendide, Wimereux

Description: Hotel Splendide, on of three hotels at Wimereu which had been requisitoned for use as No. 14 General Hospital

Connected by: Rachel58000

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ID: 9563986

Title: Dover College, Kent WW1 Memorial

Description: Names of former pupils (‘Old Dovorians’) who died during World War I, on the Great War Memorial Board in the chapel at Dover College, below the following inscription: ‘These, at the call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom’.

Connected by: Rachel58000

Additional: Of those who died, 88 others had, like Neville, been awarded the Military Cross; 58 had received the Distinguished Service Order.

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ID: 9564042

Name: ISBN 1-84342-428-2

Reference: Purchased from Naval and Military Press

Title: College of St Columba Roll of Honour 1914-1918

Description: List of former pupils who served during WW1

Connected by: Rachel58000

Additional: Name and military details confirm the match