Name: Everett Edward Young Rank: Lieutenant Service No: CDN/667 Service: 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, the Duke of Albany's), 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division, British Army Date of Birth: November 9, 1911 Place of Birth: Belle Isle, Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: November 14, 1940 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 28 Trade: Lineman, Maritime Tel and Tel at enlistment Marital Status: Married Religion: Church of England Next of Kin: Helen Vivian Young (Wife) Bridgetown, NS Date of Death: February 22, 1945 Age At Death: 32 Cemetery: Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands Grave Reference: XXV. E. 12. Commemorated on Page 557 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on December 2 Everett E. Young was the son of Joseph Henry Young (1855-1939) and Florence Etta (Genser) Young (1872-1957), and the husband of Helen Vivian Young, of Bridgetown, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. Everett and Helen had one daughter, Gloria Rose Young. Everett is noted in his service file as enjoying baseball, tennis, and swimming, and played the harmonica and the accordion. He served with the 2nd Battalion, WNSR with the Non-Permanent Active Militia starting August 1, 1940. He served 6 weeks at Camp 60 in Yarmouth as a member of the Instructional Staff. From Feb 29 to March 13, 1944, he was Acting Officer Commanding of the 148th Anti-Aircraft Battery. A member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, Everett volunteered as a CanLoan Officer and was assigned to the Seaforth Highlanders in the British Army on September 17, 1944. Not to be confused with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, the UK’s Seaforth Highlanders were a distinct line infantry regiment of the British Army (associated with large areas of the northern Highlands of Scotland). Everett embarked in the United Kingdom to cross the Channel to North West Europe on February 8, 1945, and was killed in action in the area of the Holland-Germany border on February 22, 1945. He was initially buried in a temporary burial site at the 46 “H” infantry Brigade Cemetery Bergmannshof on February 28, 1945, an was then reinterred at the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery on August 23, 1946.