Organisations > Loretto roll of honour, 1914-1920

74 ROLL OF HONOUR
2nd Lieutenant Leslie Duncan Young, 3rd (Special
Reserve) Battn. The Lancashire Fusiliers, att. Man-
chester Regiment, was born in April 1893, and was
at Loretto from 1907 to 1910. Whilst at school he
had a great reputation as a long-distance runner, and
won a medal for the mile in 4 mins. 52 sees, (on grass).
Lieut. Young joined the Lancashire Fusiliers
Special Reserve Battalion, but was sent out to join a
Battalion of the Manchester Regiment in France.
On October 8, 1917, a shell burst close to him, and
killed him instantaneously.
2nd Lieutenant David George Younger, 17th (Ser-
vice) Battn. The Highland Light Infantry, was born
in March 1893, and was at Loretto from 1907 to 1910.
XV. Shortly after the outbreak of war he enlisted
as a private, and later was commissioned in the H.L.I.
At 7.30 a.m. on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the
Somme began with an attack by the British from
Gommecourt to Montauban, a front of twenty miles.
The 17th H.L.I, was one of the Battalions taking
part, and Lieut. Younger was shot dead by machine-
gun fire during this attack, July 1, 1916.