Name: John Henry Young Service No: 3181662 Rank: Private Service: Composite Battalion, Halifax, and 85th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces Date of Birth: May 14, 1894 Place of Birth: Belle Isle, Annapolis Co, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: April 13, 1918 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Abrams River, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 23 Trade: Farmer Next of Kin: Eliza Young, Abrams River, Yarmouth Co, NS Date of Death: June 27, 1951 Age: 57 Cemetery: Our Lady of Calvary Cemetery, Yarmouth, NS John Henry Young was the son of Joseph Henry Young (1855-1939) and Etta Florence (Gesner) Young (1872- 1957), and the husband of Eliza ‘Liza’ (Moulaison) Young of Eel Brook, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. Eliza was the son of Ambroise and Jane Moulaison. John’s siblings were Ruth Emma Young (1896-1971), Mary Hester Young (1897-1977), Annie Elizabeth Young (1899-1988), Walter William Young (1901-1983), Georgina Gertrude Young (1902-1999), Florence Etta Young (1904-1973), Ethel Thorne Young (1906-1988), Russell Seth Young (1908-1993), Eliza Gibson Young (1910- 2000), Edward Everett Young (1911-1945), Everett Howard Young (b. 1911), and Ernest Robert Young (1914-1999). John’s brother, Lieutenant Edward Everett Young served as a CANLOAN Officer with the 7th Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, the Duke of Albany's), 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division in the British Army, and was killed in action February 14, 1945. John had served for 3 years and 7 months (since September 9, 1914) as a Sergeant with the Company A, Composite Battalion (Service No. 109) in Halifax, prior to his enlistment for active service in WWI. He served in Canada and in France. He was discharged on demobilisation on June 8, 1919.