David A. Young
Rank: Private, U.S. Army
Serial Number: 32489219
Hometown: Collingswood, New Jersey
Died: , prisoner of war, Stalag 9-B, Bad Orb, Germany
Buried: Harleigh Cemetery, Haddon Avenue, Camden, New Jersey
Private David A. Young was born in 1921 in New Jersey to Edward L. and Nellie Young, of 1011 Grant Avenue in Collingswood, NJ. He was the youngest of at least seven children, coming after Viola, Walter P., Evelyn W., Thomas P., Edward L. Jr., and Ruth Young. His father worked as a cabinetmaker at the time of the 1920 census. Edward L. Young Sr. was born in 1864, and was 18 years his wife’s senior. He passed away prior to the April 1930 census. David Young attended Collingswood High School, as a member of the 1941 class, but did not complete his education there, leaving school after his junior year. He worked as a wood patternmaker prior to being drafted.
David Young received his call for the draft into the United States Army on January 2, 1943, and was inducted on February 2, 1943. He went overseas as a member of a postal unit. He was transferred to the infantry in 1944, when the need for replacements became such that support units were mobilized.
On December 20, 1944, Private Young was reported to have been taken prisoner by German forces. He died of malnutrition while a prisoner at Stalag 9-B near Bad Orb, north of Frankfurt, Germany on March 12, 1945, at the age of 23. David Young was brought home in the fall of 1948, and buried at Harleigh Cemetery in Camden, NJ on December 11th of that year. His name appears on the World War II War Memorial at Knight’s Park in Collingswood, NJ.
Pvt. David Young Rites Set for Saturday
Camden Courier-Post —
Services for Pvt. David Young, of 1011 Grant avenue, West Collingswood, will be held in Harleigh cemetery, Saturday, at 2 p. m. Burial will be under the direction of Foster’s funeral home, Collingswood.
Private Young died of malnutrition March 12, 1945, at the age of 23 in a German prison camp, Stalag 9-B.
Born in West Collingswood, he attended Collingswood schools and was employed by the New York shipyard. He entered the army in February, 1944, trained at Ft. Dix and went overseas with a postal outfit, from which he was transferred to the infantry.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Nellie I. Young, of the West Collingswood address; three sisters, Mrs. Evelyn Lay, Haddonfield; Mrs. Viola Raynor, Collingswood, and Mrs. Ruth Kenny, Camden, and two brothers, Walter and Edward, both of West Collingswood.