YOUNG, Robert Carruthers

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Rank: 
Trooper
Unit / Base: 
12 Commando
1 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Scots Guards
Reconnaissance Corps
Service: 
Army
Service Number: 
2698173
Born: 
Wednesday, May 19, 1915
Died : 
Tuesday, July 6, 1971
Age: 
56
Enlisted Scots Guards; transferred to Reconnaissance Corps 6 February 1941; served in No.12 Commando and No.1 Commando (Far East). Affectionately known as 'Trapper'. Post war spent many years in Zambia. Member of the Commando Association last residing Balham, London.
 
Sources
Winchester Reunion Programme in Gallery
Scots Guards file with letter (2002) from his wife re service record.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 53 (1971).
 
Archive pages : 
No 12 Commando
No 1 Commando

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