1914-15 Trio World War One Medals To Lieut James Wilson Young, Royal Scots Fusiliers, Royal Flying Corps & RAF

1914-15 Star ( 2 Lieut J. W. Young, R.Sc. Fus) ; British War and Victory Medals 1914-19 ( Lieut J. W. Young, RAF)
Also with matching set of miniature medals
With copy of medal index card and copy of Obituary
address given as Mosscroft Cottage Coatbridge Scotland
details from Coatbridge and the Great War includes photograph and the following
Lieut Young was a member of the O.T.C. at Glasgow University while a student of medicine there. On joing the army he recieved his commision and went to France. He was afterwards drafted to Palestine, were he was attached to The Royal Air Force. He is the son of Mrs Young, who is cookery mistress under Old Monkland School board
Details from Obituary reads
James Wilson Young M.B. Ch.b, L.M.
Dt James Wilson Young started his medical career at Glasgow in 1914, but at the outbreak of War he joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers, serving as a combatant Officer in France and Egypt. In 1917 he was seconded to the R.F.C. in which he served as a pilot in Egypt and Palestine. At the end of the War he recommenced his medical studies and graduated M.B. Ch. B at the university of Glasgow in 1924. In 1925 he set up practice in Workington Cumberland,
where he reamianed the rest of his professional life, retiring in 1960. He was also the Doctor in charge of the Workington Fever Hospital. He retained his interest in the armed forces as Admiralty Surgeon and agent during World War Two he commanded and trained a mobile Civil Defence Unit. In 1950 he became a County Magistrate and in 1958 was appointed High Sherriff of Cumberland. Wilson Young led an active professional and social life in the area He was a Countryman at heart and loved riding hunting and County Shows.
his elder brother Major- General Thomas Young R.A.M.C. was formely director of Army Health at the War Office

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