YOUNG, Frank
Credit: Bernie WoodRifleman
1st/8th Battalion Isle of Wight Rifles
Hampshire Regiment
Frank was born 1885 in Carisbrooke to Frank & Emma (nee RENYARD) YOUNG who were living in Brading around the time of Frank’s death. He married Charlotte Mary WOODFORD & lived at 2 White Cottage, High Street in Bembridge.
Frank, aged 32, died from malaria on the 3rd of December 1917 & is buried in Section II Row J Grave 7 of the Haidar Pasha Cemetery in Turkey. He rests beneath a Commission Pedestal Marker bearing the Family Inscription: “THY WILL BE DONE”, alongside 406 of his First World War comrades.
Frank is also remembered on the Bembridge & IW Rifles War Memorials.
