Letters from Kenneth Jack Young to his family, 1918

Place Europe: United Kingdom, England, Wiltshire
Accession Number AWM2018.785.14
Collection number PR03200
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 1
Object type Letter
Physical description 110 Image/s captured
Maker Young, Kenneth Jack
Place made France, United Kingdom: England, Wiltshire, Fovant
Date made 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Source credit to This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.
Description

Letters relating to the First World War service of 614 Private Kenneth Jack Young, 43rd Australian Infantry Battalion. This file contains letters from Kenneth Jack Young to his parents and sister from January 1918 until his death in July from wounds sustained at the Battle of Hamel. It covers his education at No 3 Group Signal School, and on active duty in France. In some letters Young signs off his letters as 'Billy'.

This file contains:
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to May, 1 January 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to his parents, Fovant, 6 January 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to his parents, Sig. School, 13 January 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to May and Connie, Signal School, 20 February 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to his parents, Signal School, Fovant, 23 February 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to his mother, 6 March 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to his parents, 3rd Signal School, Fovant, Wiltshire, 10 March 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to his parents, 3rd Division Sig School, 26 March 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to May and Connie Young, 3rd Div Sig School, 9 April 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to his parents and May, Fovant, England, 14 April 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to his parents, France, 5 May 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to his parents, France, 15 May 1918
Postcard from Kenneth Jack Young to his mother, 25 May 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to his parents, France, 27 May 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to his parents, France, 29 May 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to May, France, 2 June 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to his parents, France, 11 June 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to May, France, 17 June 1918
Letter and envelope from Kenneth Jack Young to his parents, France, 21 June 1918
Letter from Kenneth Jack Young to his parents [undated]