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“If you think, have a kindly thought, If you speak, speak generously, Of those who as heroes fought And died to keep you free”
Set up by the Black Country Society. Our aim is to highlight local men who died in the Great War and how they have been commemorated on war memorials. Its scope covers the whole of the present Dudley Municipal Borough and therefore includes the places which have come within its bounds since 1914.
There are over fifty memorials and the number of names exceeds three thousand. Research on the names has been extensive but inevitably errors and omissions occur. We would like to hear about them concentrated on life and work before 1914, involvement in military campaigns and where each man is buried or commemorated.
Edward Young was born in Birmingham and attended Halesowen Grammar School and the local Methodist Church. He volunteered for the Staffords and went to the 8th (Service) Battalion. After training in England the battalion landed in France on the 14th July 1915. They were quickly into old and inadequate trenches south of Ypres and without deep trenches the Staffords were immediately vulnerable to mortar and shell fire. Private Edward Young was among those wounded early on. He was taken to a Casualty Clearing Station on the safer side of Ypres but died of wounds on the 26th August 1915. He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery (III C 29a) and commemorated on the Halesowen, The Earls School and United Methodist church Memorials.
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ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, High St, Halesowen, Dudley, West Midlands, England, B63 3BB
