| Samuel Young was the eldest son of Robert and Elizabeth Young. Robert Young married Lizzie Crooks on 19th February 1894 in the district of Cookstown.
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| Samuel Young was born in Tamlaght, Coagh on 17th September 1896. He was second oldest of seven children.
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| The 1901 census lists Samuel as age 4, living with the family at house 15 in Coagh. His father was a labourer.
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| Family: Robert Young, Eliza Lizzie Young, Sarah Young (born 17th November 1894), Samuel Young (born 17th September 1896), Robert Young (born 10th November 1898), Henry Young (born 16th September 1900), Isabella Young (born 4th March 1903), Joseph Young (born 2nd January 1906), James Alexander Young (born 22nd July 1908).
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| The 1911 census does not list Samuel as living with the family at house 17 in Coagh, where his father was working as a farm servant.
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| However, the 1911 census lists Samuel as age 14, working as a farm servant at house 7 in Ballymoyle, Springhill, Moneymore, for the Wilson family.
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| Samuel enlisted in Omagh with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
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| Private Samuel Young went out as a battle casualty replacement after the battalion was decimated at the Battle of the Somme.
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| Private Young had served with them for six or eight months and had survived the battle at the beginning of June.
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| Private Samuel Young was serving with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action at Messines in Belgium on 26th June 1917.
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| From the Belfast Newsletter dated 16th July 1917:
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| Private Samuel Young, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Lower Coagh, killed in action.
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| 1918
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| From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 29th June 1918:
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| YOUNG – First Anniversary – In loving remembrance of our dear son and brother, Private Samuel Young, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, killed in action somewhere in France, 26th June 1917.
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‘When we look around our lonely home,
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And we see his vacant chair,
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Where of the sat with listening ear,
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When we told him al our care.
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But now alas with sorrowing heart,
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Through life’s dark vale we tread;
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The dearest one to us on earth,
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Lies numbered with the dead,
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We dream we see his dear kind face,
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And kiss his still, cold brow;
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But in our aching heart we know,
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We have no Samuel now.’
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| Ever remembered by his sorrowing parents, sister and brothers, Lower Coagh, Coagh, County Tyrone.
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| Memorials
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| Private Young is buried in Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium.
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| Private Young is commemorated locally on both the old and new Coagh Memorials.
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| The CWGC record Private Samuel Young as the aon of Robert and Elizabeth Young of Lower Coagh, County Tyrone.
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