DeWitt YOUNG
Pvt., 332nd Inf., Co. "L"
Submitted by Beverly Goodman (great-grandniece)
DeWitt S. YOUNG was born in 1894 in Lebanon, Ohio, the son of George and Nancy Shaw Young. He entered the Army at Camp Sherman in April 1917 and assigned to Company “M” of the 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Division (National Army). Once in France with the AEF and soon after the 332nd Infantry had been chosen for duty in Italy, Private Young was one of the men selected by and transferred to the 332nd Infantry’s Company “L” from the 331st Infantry (the transfers between the two regiments were made in order to have the fittest and most qualified men in the ranks of the 332nd Infantry for its special assignment on the Italian Front). He received his Honorable Discharge from the Army on June 17, 1919 and wore the “Vittorio-Veneto” and “Defensive Sector” clasps on his Victory Medal. In 1926, along with the rest of the men who served in 332nd Infantry on the Italian Front during WWI, he received the Italian War Medal accompanied by the document of the awarding decree by the Italian Minister of War (IL MINISTRO DELLA GUERRA DECRETA).
After the war, DeWitt, lovingly called “DeeDee” by his immediate family, worked at the Raymond Bag Company (a manufacturer of heavy paper bags, such as flour and cement bags) in Middletown, Ohio while living with his parents. Later on, he lived with other family members. He never married nor had any children. DeWitt Young died of respiratory disease in 1973.
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