Richard Augustus Young was the second child of George Young and Hannah Mumford. He was born June 19, 1873, in Winslow, Buckinghamshire. He came to Canada in 1893 with his parents and his older Brother George, his sister Anne, and younger brother Percy.
By 1901 he was living in New Westminster, BC, with his family. He married Margaret May Nixon in 1907. They had 2 children in British Columbia, then moved to Macleod, Alberta to homestead where Eileen was born. They returned to BC and had 2 more children, the last born in 1916. He became a butcher just like his maternal grandmother, Mary Ann Mumford. He was a short man standing 5’3.5 inches, with blue eyes and brown hair. In 1916 Richard Augustus joined the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force. He joined the 238th Battalion, known as the Forestry Corps. They produced timber to be used in the war. He was a private, and his unit sailed from Halifax in September to Liverpool.
In 1918 he had a bout of Influenza, and he returned to New Westminster. He was discharged by the Army in 1919. However, by then, his marriage was over. He often listed himself as single. His wife listed herself as a widow, There seems to be no divorce on file even though his wife remarried in 1922. According to the family, Richard worked in the lumber industry in British Columbia, mostly logging. He kept in touch with his two older children and remained single for the rest of his life. He died in 1957 in Burnaby, British Columbia.
