ROLL OF HONOR

New Zealand Tablet, 5 June 1919, Page 37

ROLL OF HONOR

ENGINEER SUB-LIEUTENANT E. C. R. YOUNG. The relatives of Engineer Sub-Lieutenant E. U R. Young, R.N.R., of H.M. Auxiliary-Cruiser Teutonic were recently notified of his death, in England. Ihe deceased naval officer contracted; influenza on December 13 last, and was removed ; to Haslar Naval Hospital, where, to the great grief of the officers and :of his immediate companions, he died on December 19 after receiving the last rites of the Church at the hands of Father MacDonald. : With full. naval - honors the obsequies were conducted by the Catholic chaplain of the naval barracks at Portsmouth. Several New Zealanders attended the funeral, and officers walked at either side of the coffin. The late SubLieutenant Young was' engaged in war service irom the very commencement of hostilities, had taken part in some perilous work, and rendered good service to the Empire. The deceased officer was married in 1914 to a daughter of Mr. Lynskey, Rangiora, but his wife died in ,1915. He was the elder son of Mrs. E. C. Young, Wellington.—