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Born in Aston on 20 January 1884, the 5th son of the Revd Henry Savill Young of Englefield, Reading, George was educated at Bradfield College, Berkshire (1898-1902 and then Corpus where he achieved a 2nd class degree in Modern History in 1906 but also was Secretary and Captain of the college Association Football Club (1904-1906), college Captain of Hockey (1905-1906), Secretary of the Owlet Club (1904), its President in 1905 and an Oxford University Hockey Blue in 1906. After university he joined the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1908 (he won first place in the entrance exam) and married Alison Jane in 1914, the only daughter of the Revd Frederick John Poole, deceased, at St Thomas’s Orchard Street. Hen enlisted on 4 August 1914, survived wounding once but died at No. 34 Casualty Clearing Station on 31 March 1917, of wounds received in action (aged 33).