Army Service Corps
Killed In Action
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William James Young (SN 9453) was born in Ballarat and attended the Humffray Street State School. He enlisted as a 21 year old chaff cutter on July 7th 1915. He joined the 18th Company Australian Army Service Corps, part of 8th Brigade Supply Column and embarked from Melbourne on New Year’s Eve 1915, spent a couple of months in Egypt and then reached France in late June 1916. On July 28th 1918 he died of shrapnel wounds to the head, suffered the previous day when delivering supplies forward to the trenches. He is buried in St Pierre Cemetery, Amiens, France.
