Robert Louis Young.......1897 - 1950 Known throughout his life as 'Leo' Young, he was born on 22 March 1897 at Defoe Road, Stoke Newington, London, to parents Robert E. Young, an author of 17 novels between 1899 and 1916 - writing under the pen-name of Robert Halifax - and Louise Young (nee Read). Leo married Alice Victoria Nobbs on the 6 June 1920. There was one daughter Greta, who died aged 21 in 1947. His wife Alice died on 7 June 1922 after only 2 years of marriage. He married Edith Blanche Brucher on June 1924. and a son John, was born in 1937, to his second marriage, who lived in Romford, Essex. John died in 2008. Leo had one sister, Clarice Young, three years his senior. . In the First World War he served from 1916 to his demob in 1919 with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, seeing service in Egypt. He also saw service in the Labour Corps. After the war he was on the outside sales staff of a leading paint manufacturer, residing for a time at Thornton Heath, South London.. He died in June 1950.     Wedding day June 1924

From LH side. Leo Young, Clarice Lawrence (sister), a very young David Lawrence, Edith Young and Greta Young. (Leo's daughter by his previous marriage to Alice.) Photo taken on the beach at Shoeburyness on the Essex Thames estuary, probably in 1929.  Leo back from war service in Egypt.

	Edith Young and John Young June 1958	Pat and John Young 1956	John Young at the pier.

	John Young and son Martin Young.	Pat and John Young

	Caroline and Warren Neal