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PRIVATE
ELWOOD
K. YOUNG was the son of William H. and Azza Key Young, of 21 West
Stiles Avenue, Collingswood NJ. His father worked for a wire
manufacturing company in Camden NJ.
Private
Young died from pneumonia on December 2, 1918, just two days after being
pronounced cured from wounds received during an accident in the Argonne
Forest. He was a motorcycle runner and in rising from a shell hole
during an attack his belt became fastened in something and was torn from
his waist. When the pistol in the holster fastened to the belt fell, the
weapon exploded and he was wounded. He recovered only to contract
pneumonia, and died on December 2, 1918. Young was 20 years old and enlisted July 21, 1917, in the
3rd Regiment, New Jersey National Guard, four days before its departure for Camp Edge,
Sea Girt NJ. He went to Camp McClellan, Alabama with the regiment and was
transferred to the 111th Machine Gun Battalion.
Ellwood Young was survived by his parents, brothers George,
William H. Jr., and Harry, and sister Abby Young, all of the West Stiles
Street address as of the 1920 Census. The Young family was still on West
Stiles Street as late as April 1930. |
