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Auction: 9004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 1000

Three: Brigadier J.R. Young [C.B.], Royal Engineers Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (Major J.R. Young, R.E.), rank officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (Brig. Gen. J.R. Young.), generally good very fine, together with the following contemporary documents: - Commission appointing Julius Ralph Young as Lieutenant, Land Forces, dated 5.7.1884, water damaged - Bestowal Document for the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, C.B., dated 4.6.1921, water damaged - Letter from the Central Chancery to the recipient with reference to his inability to attend his C.B. Investiture, dated 10.10.1921 - Two Portrait photographs of recipient in uniform (lot) Estimate £ 350-400 C.B. London Gazette 4.6.1921 Colonel Julius Ralph Young, Chief Engineer, Forces in China. Brigadier Julius Ralph Young, C.B. (1864-1961), second son of Major-General R. Young, J.P.; educated at Clifton College, Hartnell House and Royal Military College Woolwich; commissioned Lieutenant Royal Engineers, 1884; Captain 1892; was serving in Natal at the outbreak of the Second Boer War and was appointed Railway Staff Officer on the Staff of Sir George White; present during the Defence of Ladysmith (twice mentioned in Sir George White´´s despatches of 2.12.1899 and 23.3.1900); during the privations of the siege Young´´s resourcefulness seems to have served him and others well, ´´It now became expedient to supplement the fresh meat ration with horseflesh. The better conditioned of the recently emancipated troop-horses were re-questioned. Some had already made their way to the enemy´´s lines; those that remained by degrees came under the butcher´´s knife. From this period until the end of the siege, on an average, sixty horses were slaughtered daily for distribution as rations. Considerable ingenuity was displayed by Lieutenant McNalty, A.S.C., Captain Young, R.E., and their assistant, Mr. Turner, in issuing horsemeat in a palatable form. It was converted into a paste called chevril, which made a nourishing soup. Sausages and forced meats were also made, and jellies and extracts were manufactured for use in the hospitals.´´ (The Times History of the War in South Africa, Vol. IV, refers); Major 21.5.1901; advanced Temporary Brigadier-General, 15.12.1914-28.2.1917 and served during the Great War at the War Office as Assistant Director of Works and Fortifications before being posted as Colonel (Chief Engineer), Irish Command, where he held the posts of Governor of the Royal Hibernian Military School, Dublin and Governor of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, between August 1914 - July 1916; served as Chief Engineer, No. 2 Section, Suez Defence, in the Egyptian Theatre of War, from 15.7.1916; posted in the same capacity to China, where he served April 1917- June 1920; retired Honorary Brigadier 6.6.1921.

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