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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 80

(x) Three: Deputy Surgeon-General E. W. Young, 60th Rifles, late 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot, 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot, 11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot and 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Staff Surgn. 2nd. Class E. W. Young.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, pierced with replacement ring suspension, good very fine (3)

Edward William Young was born on 22 January 1822 at Chelsea, London, qualifying M.D. at Edinburgh in 1846. Appointed Assistant Staff-Surgeon on 7 August 1846, he served 4 years in Corfu before being posted to Sunderland with the 33rd Foot. Transferred as Assistant Surgeon to the 11th Foot on 14 October 1851, he was promoted Staff-Surgeon 2nd Class and transferred to the Eastern Campaign where he witnessed the Battles of Alma, Balaklava and Inkermann, together with the fall of Sebastopol and the Expedition to Kertch.

Returning to Fermoy, County Cork, from 1856-57, Young was transferred to the 1/60th Rifles and promoted to Surgeon, with whom he served in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny, including the actions of Dumorriagunj and the action at Toolespore on 23 December 1858. He went on to act as Medical Officer of the regiment until September 1873. This included a brief spell in Malta in 1866, promotion to Surgeon-Major with the 1/60th Rifles on 7 August 1866 and subsequent participation in the Red River Expedition of 1870 where he was the Primary Medical Officer. He wrote the Medical History of the Red River Expedition, May to October 1870, before retiring on 16 July 1873 and being placed on half pay on 24 January 1874. Appointed Honorary Deputy Surgeon-General, equivalent to Colonel, on 8 February 1875, Young died at his home, Salisbury House, Southsea, Hampshire on 1 February 1893 and is buried in the Highland Road Cemetery, Portsmouth. He left effects totalling £6760.0s.1d. to his son, Lieutenant-General George S. Youn; sold together with copied research including his portrait photograph, by Camille Silvy (National Portrait Gallery Collection).


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