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Pte. Matthew George Youngs
British Army 1st Btn Norfolk Regiment
from:Norwich
(d.23rd Jul 1916)
My great uncle Matthew Youngs of the 1st Battalion Norfolk regiment was killed in action at High Wood on 23rd of July 1916 aged 20. One of 7 children of Edward Joseph Matthew Youngs and Martha Ann Curtis, his older brother, Arthur Edward, was also fighting in the Somme and was killed at Deville Wood 4 days earlier, aged 22. Their mother never recovered from the loss of two sons. Following the sudden death of her husband in 1919, she became mentally unhinged and spent the last few years of her life in a mental institution. She died in 1938.
