Edward William Young

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Edward William Young was born in Ebbesbourne Wake, Wiltshire, on 26 Sep 1890 and baptised there on 9 Nov 1890 the son of Edward Tom Young and Fanny Young (nee Maidment).  (N.B. The Christian names conform to the birth and baptism records though they were frequently reversed in the records not least of all in the Military Records and some family research also gives him a third Christian name of Vincent.)   He spent much of his early life in Ebbesbourne Wake though he had an adult second baptism at the Roman Catholic Church in New Wardour Castle, Tisbury, Wiltshire, on 7 September 1914.   He enlisted and joined the Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire) Regiment as a Private (Service No. 22971).  At some time he was transferred to the East Yorkshire Regiment (Service No. 36021).  It is understood he served in the Middle East Theatre of War and on his discharge on 12 August 1919 was awarded the Victory and British War Medals.  By the 1921 Census he was boarding at 8 Oakfield Place, Clifton, Bristol, described as an Accountant of Clarks College, Bristol. He later became an Archaeologist and, later still, was the Curator of the Avebury Museum, Wiltshire. By 1939 he was registered as living at The Manor, Avebury, Wiltshire, described as an Archaeologist and still apparently single. His death was registered in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on 20 November 1971 and he was later buried at Ebbesbourne Wake where he had been living in his final years. (Considerable problems have arisen in this case due to the frequent reversal of Christian names.)