Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (8348 P. Young. Yorkshire R. (Replacement)) officially impressed naming, in named card box of issue also marked ‘Replacement’, nearly extremely fine £50-£70

Percy W. Young was born at Gravesend, Kent, on 11 February 1888, and enlisted into the West Yorkshire Regiment at Woolwich on 23 January 1907, aged 18 years 11 months, a milkman by trade. He served in India from February 1908 to December 1911, including operations on the North West Frontier with the Mohmand Field Force in 1908. He served in France with the 1st Battalion from 8 September 1914 until invalided home with shrapnel wounds to his back on 16 November 1914. After a period of convalescence at home, he served at Malta until March 1919 by which time he had been promoted to Sergeant. His Medal Index Card confirms replacement medals issued in 1965.

Sold with copied service papers.