Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Pioneer Manoah Young, Royal Engineers, late Corporal, Grenadier Guards

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (6422 Pte., 1/Gren. Gds.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (6422 Pte., Gren. Gds.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (6422 Corpl., Grenadier Guards); 1914-15 Star (118783 Pnr., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (118783 Pnr., R.E.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (Pte., Gren. Gds.), mounted as worn, edge bruising, contact marks, fine and better (7) £550-600

Manoah Young was born in Bensington, Wellingford, Oxfordshire. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for service in the Grenadier Guards, aged 21 years. He had previously served in the 4th Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry. With the 1st Battalion he served in Gibraltar, September 1897-July 1898; Egypt and the Sudan, July-October 1898, and South Africa, October 1899-October 1902. Transferred to the Army Reserve in February 1904, he was discharged having completed his period of service on 22 March 1909. With the onset of the Great War he rejoined the Army, serving as a Pioneer in the Royal Engineers, entering the France/Flanders theatre of war on 18 September 1915. He later served as a Private in the Labour Corps.

Sold with copied service papers and m.i.c.