WW1 BRITISH MILITARY CROSS GROUP TO CAPT. G. YOUNG RAMC

Military Cross Group of 5 to Captain Gavin Young, Royal Army Medical Corps.

Military Cross unnamed as issued.

Trio all correctly impressed: CAPT. G. YOUNG. R.A.M.C. France, Médaille d’honneur des Épidémies, raised struck naming CAPTAIN YOUNG 1917, (Barac278, L'Intérieur).

Gavin Young was born in 1892 in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, the son of John Strang Young and Mary Lough Richie nee MacKenzie. In 1914 he graduated with an MB ChB from the University of Glasgow and was registered as a doctor on 21 Oct 1914. He then then became a Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow in 1920. He was a Lieutenant in the University’s Officer Training Corps from 8 Oct 1913.

He enlisted on 1 Apr 1915, was promoted to Captain on 1 Oct 1915 and proceeded to France in Nov 1915. He spent the entire war in France with only short periods of leave, originally with the 30th General hospital, and subsequently with the 16 Field Ambulance, 2nd York and Lancaster Regt, and the 12 Convalesce Depot. In 1918 he was awarded the Military Cross for attending wounded under heavy machine gun fire. He was also awarded the French Médaille d’honneur des Épidémies, awarded for medical services. (The Glasgow University Roll of honour shows their students received just 4 of these.)

He was appointed Acting Major on 4 Sept 1918 and demobilised on 14 April 1919.He resigned his commission from 16 July 1920 and then worked as a medical specialist in Glasgow in ear, nose and throat surgery.In 1918 he married Marjorie Kerr Love and he died in Ayr, Ayrshire Scotland in 1977.

https://www.tracesofwar.com/awards/3152/M%C3%A9daille dhonneur-des-%C3%89pid%C3%A9mies.htm

Comes with various documents. Ancestry.com, London Gazette, 18 July 1918, The Medical Directory, 1942.
Citation for the M.C. (LG 18 July 1918 "for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in attending to the wounded under heavy machine gun fire. He worked up to the leading wave and searched the whole ground for wounded under continuous fire and owing to his exertions, all the wounded were evacuated with great rapidity. Later he showed great courage and devotion to duty in rescuing wounded from destroyed dug-outs under shell fire."

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