David Reginald Younger
Captain, 1st Battalion. Gordon Highlanders
- Register No.
- 1349 (Alf's numbering, from The Register of the Victoria Cross, 1997)
- Rank
- Captain all Captains →
- Unit
- 1st Battalion. Gordon Highlanders all Gordon Highlanders VCs →
- Date of action
- 11 July 1900 on this day → all of 1900 →
- Conflict / campaign
- Second Boer War
- London Gazette
- 8th August 1902. * on this day → all of 1902 →
- Born
- 17th March 1871 at Edinburgh
- Died
- in action on 11th June 1900 at Lechochoek, Transvaal, South
- Memorial / grave
- at Krugersdorp Cemetery, Transvaal, South Africa
- Medal held by
- unknown
Digest of citation
Captain Younger headed a party near Krugersdorp, South Africa, on 11th July 1900. They successfully manhandled an artillery wagon, protected only by a small kopje, even so they were exposed to heavy and precise enemy fire. He joined the second party which had gone out to attempt to bring in the guns and he was mortally wounded and later dying of these wounds
From Alf Askin's research notes
Reproduced as Alf wrote it, c. 2000–2005. Spelling and abbreviations are his own.
YOUNGER, David Reginald. (Reg No. 1349).
Captain. 1st Battalion. Gordon Highlanders.
London Gazetted on 8th August 1902. * VC Medal's Custodian is unknown.
Born on 17th March 1871 at Edinburgh.
Killed in action on 11th June 1900 at Lechochoek, Transvaal, South Africa.
Memorial on grave at Krugersdorp Cemetery, Transvaal, South Africa.
Digest citation reads: Captain Younger headed a party near Krugersdorp, South Africa, on 11th July 1900. They successfully manhandled an artillery wagon, protected only by a small kopje, even so they were exposed to heavy and precise enemy fire. He joined the second party which had gone out to attempt to bring in the guns and he was mortally wounded and later dying of these wounds.
Additional information:. Captain Younger served as an officer in the Edinburgh Artillery before being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders on 23rd December 1893. In India he saw action at Chitral and the Punjab Frontier. On the 20th October 1897 he took part in the assault on Dargai, a precipitous hill feature on the Samana Ridge which covered the road to Tirah (now in Pakistan). He received the Medal and three clasps. Captain Younger's relatives received his Victoria Cross after his Majesty King Edward VII had approved the Decoration in accordance with the regulations.
* "The Victoria Cross 1856-1920," records Captain Younger as being Gazetted on the 28th September 1900 . where it is stated that "David Reginald Younger,, Captain, The Gordon Highlanders. In recognition of the conspicuous bravery displayed by a him on the same occasion , 11th July, 1900, would have been recommended to Her Majesty for the Victoria Cross had he survived." He would have won his Victoria Cross at the same time as Captain William Eagleson Gordon, also of the Gordon Highlanders
Additional information
Captain Younger served as an officer in the Edinburgh Artillery before being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders on 23rd December 1893. In India he saw action at Chitral and the Punjab Frontier. On the 20th October 1897 he took part in the assault on Dargai, a precipitous hill feature on the Samana Ridge which covered the road to Tirah (now in Pakistan). He received the Medal and three clasps. Captain Younger's relatives received his Victoria Cross after his Majesty King Edward VII had approved the Decoration in accordance with the regulations. as being Gazetted on the 28th September 1900 . where it is stated that "David Reginald Younger,, Captain, The Gordon Highlanders. In recognition of the conspicuous bravery displayed by a him on the same occasion , 11th July, 1900, would have been recommended to Her Majesty for the Victoria Cross had he survived." He would have won his Victoria Cross at the same time as Captain William Eagleson Gordon, also of the Gordon Highlanders
* "The Victoria Cross 1856-1920," records Captain Younger
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