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Scrap album compiled by the family of Private R. Young, Machine Gun Corps, who survived the sinking of the S.S. Transylvania A large half leather bound scrapbook with gilt Kings Crown Machine Gun Corps badge inset into the front cover containing numerous postcards sent home by Robert Young, from Greece, Italy, Mesopotamia and Palestine also with tipped in original telegrams and press cuttings, letters and original Army notifications that he was suffering from Malaria and on another occasion ‘inflammation of connective tissues’. Also an original concert programme for a concert held on board the ‘Transylvania’ on 27 February 1917, an original telegram from Robert Young to his family two days after the sinking simply stating ‘Saved Home Soon - Young’, a large newspaper cutting on the sinking of the S.S. Transylvania together with several studio family photographs. binding to album worn, therefore reasonable condition £50-£70 --- Robert D. Young, a native of Glasgow, served during the Great War as a Private with 239 Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps, as part of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force. The troopship Transylvania was sunk in the Gulf of Genoa on 4 May 1917 by the German U-boat SM U-63, while carrying Allied troops to Egypt, and sank with a loss of 412 lives.
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Scrap album compiled by the family of Private R. Young, Machine Gun Corps, who survived the sinking of the S.S. Transylvania A large half leather bound scrapbook with gilt Kings Crown Machine Gun Corps badge inset into the front cover containing numerous postcards sent home by Robert Young, from Greece, Italy, Mesopotamia and Palestine also with tipped in original telegrams and press cuttings, letters and original Army notifications that he was suffering from Malaria and on another occasion ‘inflammation of connective tissues’. Also an original concert programme for a concert held on board the ‘Transylvania’ on 27 February 1917, an original telegram from Robert Young to his family two days after the sinking simply stating ‘Saved Home Soon - Young’, a large newspaper cutting on the sinking of the S.S. Transylvania together with several studio family photographs. binding to album worn, therefore reasonable condition £50-£70 --- Robert D. Young, a native of Glasgow, served during the Great War as a Private with 239 Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps, as part of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force. The troopship Transylvania was sunk in the Gulf of Genoa on 4 May 1917 by the German U-boat SM U-63, while carrying Allied troops to Egypt, and sank with a loss of 412 lives.
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