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YOUNG, Charles Lyle (1893-1915) +

YOUNG, Charles Lyle (1893-1915)


Charles Young, farm worker and soldier, was killed in action at Walker's Ridge, Gallipoli during World War I.

He was born at Barnawartha on 12 March 1893, the son of Robert Edward Young and Beatrice nee McNicoll, of Lansell Road, Toorak. He was educated as a boarder at Geelong College from 1909 to 1910 rowing in the 1st VIII in 1910 then left School to work as a station overseer at Brell Plains Station, Corowa, New South Wales. He also worked in a stock and station agent’s office.

He enlisted early in World War I as a trooper in 8th Australian Light Horse (No. 538), and embarked on HMAT A16 Star of Victoria on 25 February 1915 for Egypt and Gallipoli, where he was killed, aged 22, while serving dismounted as infantry, on 3 July 1915 at Walker’s Ridge, in the lead-up to the August Offensive. He is buried at Ari Burnu Cemetery - Grave E.1.

Young’s cousin, Sergeant Charles Edmond Lyle Young (12/894) the son of James Lyle and Mary Stringer Young (of Homebush, NSW, and native of Papeete, Tahiti), enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and was killed at the Landing on 25 April 1915, while serving with 16th (Waikato) Company, Auckland Regiment, his name is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial. Another cousin, Captain Charles Euston Young (of Daylesford and Brisbane), was awarded the Distinguished Service Order while serving with 47 Battalion AIF ‘for conspicuous gallantry, tenacity of purpose and determination, in holding 800 yards of front line at Dernancourt on 5 April, 1918 with his company against overwhelming masses of enemy for 3½ hours, thus enabling the situation to be saved and the attack defeated with heavy losses to the enemy.’ He was also awarded the Military Cross ‘for services at Pozieres in July 1916, and afterwards to the end of the war.’


Sources: Based on an edited extract from Geelong Collegians at the Great War compiled by James Affleck. pp123-124 (citing Australian War Memorial; Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Photo Pegasus August 1915.