GUARDSMAN HENRY YOUNG
WELSH GUARDS
24TH JULY 1916 AGE 35
BURIED: BRANDHOEK TOWN CEMETERY, BELGIUM
As he left home, Guardsman Young quoted from a Methodist hymn of which 'God be with you till we meet again' is both the first and the last line of every verse, and the last line of the chorus too.
The hymn asks God to guide, uphold and 'securely fold you', 'put his arms unfailing round you', 'keep love's banner floating o'er you' and 'smite death's threatening wave before you'.
What is rather strange is that for Henry Young, in the section where the next of kin are usually named, it says 'Father of Ronald Young, of Glyn Neath, Glamorgan'. In the 1911 census, Henry, then a worker in a gunpowder factory, had been married for less than a year to 'Kate Young' and they had no children, so Ronald Young was less than four when he lost his father. Henry Young's inscription was chosen by Mrs H. Morgan; was this the former Mrs Young, the mother of Ronald?