Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Captain B. M. Young, 2nd South Western Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches

British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. B. M. Young.) light contact marks, very fine (2) £70-£90

M.I.D. London Gazette 30 May 1918.

Bertram Michell Young was born on 13 April 1872 and was educated at Clifton College, Bristol. He qualified as a doctor at St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, becoming Demonstrator in Hygiene at King’s College London, and was a Fellow of the Institute of Public Health. In 1905 he was in medical practice at Hassocks in Sussex. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 16 October 1914, and, having been promoted Captain on 16 April 1915, served with the 2nd South Western Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance on the Western Front from June 1916, later becoming part of the 74th (Yeomanry) Division. For his services in the Great War he was Mentioned in Despatches. He later resided at the family home at Crocombe House, Taunton, and died in 1948.

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