1647 Regimental Sergeant Major James Young DCM of the 1/4th Battalion, Royals Scots Fusiliers, died on the 29th January 1918. He had originally arrived overseas in the Balkans on the 6th June 1915 and was possibly a regular soldier attached to the 1/4th (Territorial Battalion), RSF. Had he been a territorial, I would have expecetd to have seen a six digit number on his medal index card as well, but this is noticeably absent.
RSM Young was born in Glasgow and enlisted there. He was living at New Cumnock in Ayrshire at the time. He probably died of disease or sickness but he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Chatby Memorial in Egypt.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War
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