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Victorian Naval Forces Muster

for the Colony of Victoria. (muster range 1853-1910)*

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Last Name:Young
First Name:Francis John
Rank:Leading Seaman
Birth Date: 02-06-1867
Branch:Naval Brigade - Sandridge (Pt. Melb)

Francis John Young

 

Leading Seaman

 

 

 

Lieut. F. J. Young circa 1920

 

 

born 2 June 1867

 

Entered Victorian Navy - 1 January 1886  Trade Sea

China Contingent 1900

Requested discharge believed to have served in Boer war.

Entered - RAN 21.May 1912

New Guinea Expeditionary Force WW1

Retired - Lieutenant Commmander 1 June 1927.

 

Details and photos supplied by Ken Booth.

William George Monteith and Frances Young


 

Lieutenant J. F. Young, who took charge of the naval office in South Australia last week, has had an interesting career. He was born in London in 1867, and arrived in Australia in 1886. Prior to joining the Victorian naval forces in pre-Federation days, Mr. Young was in the mercantile marine. He served with the Victorian naval forces in China during the Boxer rebellion in 1900-1, and saw active service in South Africa with the Victorian Mounted Rifles. 

In 1914 he was a member of the first naval and military expedition to New Guinea, and upon his return remained in the forces. When the Commonwealth took over the naval forces Lieutenant Young remained on the staff at headquarters, Melbourne, and in 1911, when compulsory training was instituted, he was transferred to the staff in Sydney, where he remained until 1914, when he was pro (sic)

a half years he has been sub-district naval officer at Launceston, where he remained for five years. Then for the past two and a half years he has been sub-district naval officer at Port Melbourne. Lieutenant Young paid an official visit to his Excellency the Governor on Saturday.

The Advertiser (Adelaide), 18 December 1922


 

 

 On 7 August 1886 the Argus reported the court martial of William Monteith, Training Seaman, and Francis Young, Able Seaman.


  Certificate won by Leading Seaman John Francis Young
Image courtesy of the Museum of HMAS Cerberus


 

Profile in The Australian Illustrated Enclclopaedia of The Boxer Uprising 1899-1901, Justin Corfield, Slouch Hat Publications, McCrae Australia, 2001.

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausnavy/Vic_Navy_China.htm 


 

More details on this person can be found in the Victorian Navy Certificates of Service This is a very large pdf file of 109 mb and takes 13 minutes to download with a 1.5 mbps internet connection.


* 1853 is given as the commencement date for the Victorian Navy as this is the year that Commander Lockyer (RN) went to Britain to superintend the building of HMCS Victoria.
Although the Victorian Navy ended in 1901 the career of Cerbeus etc continued. In 1910 the new ships started arriving & manning levels increased.

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