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NameGladys Young OBE 
[9, From Lionel West, 24th Dec 2008, re ‘Mutual Ancestors’], [3, Her birth, Q2 of 1887, Newcastle T dist, vol 10b, p. 162], [13, Her obituary, 20 Aug 1975], [4, 1901 ref: RG13 Piece: 580 Folio: 15 Page: 21], [4, 1911 ref: RG14PN2930 RG78PN101 RD31 SD1 ED8 SN144], [3, Her death, b. 29 Apr 1887, Q3 of 1975, Eastbourne dist, vol 18, p. 687]
[9, From Lionel West, 24th Dec 2008, re ‘Mutual Ancestors’], [3, Her birth, Q2 of 1887, Newcastle T dist, vol 10b, p. 162], [13, Her obituary, 20 Aug 1975], [4, 1901 ref: RG13 Piece: 580 Folio: 15 Page: 21], [4, 1911 ref: RG14PN2930 RG78PN101 RD31 SD1 ED8 SN144], [3, Her death, b. 29 Apr 1887, Q3 of 1975, Eastbourne dist, vol 18, p. 687]Birth29 Apr 1887, Newcastle on Tyne
Death18 Aug 1975, Eastbourne district, Sussex
GeneralNoted radio actress. Several times Best Actress of the Year.
EducationSutton High School. Bonn.
FatherWilliam Michael Young (ca1847-ca1923)
MotherFrances Jane Hocken (ca1849-ca1922)
Spouses
1Major Algernon Henry Pascoe West [9, From Lionel West, 24th Dec 2008, re ‘Mutual Ancestors’], [3, His birth, Q3 of 1886, Plymouth dist, vol 5b, p. 268], [13, His wife, Gladys Young’s obituary, 20 Aug 1975], [4, 1911 Ref: RG14PN418 RG78PN14 RD5 SD1 ED4 SN124], [3, His death, b. 27 SE 1886, Bracknell dist, vol 19, p. 0310]
[9, From Lionel West, 24th Dec 2008, re ‘Mutual Ancestors’], [3, His birth, Q3 of 1886, Plymouth dist, vol 5b, p. 268], [13, His wife, Gladys Young’s obituary, 20 Aug 1975], [4, 1911 Ref: RG14PN418 RG78PN14 RD5 SD1 ED4 SN124], [3, His death, b. 27 SE 1886, Bracknell dist, vol 19, p. 0310]FatherReginald Jervoise West (1861-1921)
MotherIda Agnes Vane Hay (ca1859-1938)
Marriageca Nov 1916, Epsom district, Surrey [3, Their marriage, Q4 of 1916, Epsom district, vol 2a, p. 61], [13, Their engagement in issue of 15 Nov 1916]
ChildrenRichard Temple (ca1920-1920)
Notes for Gladys Young OBE
Her OBE was announced in the London Gazette on 1 Jan 1951.
_______________
WOMEN AND THE WORLD TODAY
By PEGGY CHAMBERS
LONDON:
FORBES ROBERTSON LTD.
17 Fleet Street - B.C. 4.
First Published April, 1954..
COPYRIGHT 1954 BY
FORBES ROBERTSON LTD.
PRINTED IN GUERNSEY, C I., BRITISH ISLES, BY
GUERNSEY HERALD LIMITED, VICTORIA ROAD
____________________________________________
(pp. 188-192)
GLADYS YOUNG, O.B.E.
Radio Actress
"MISS YOUNG, will you play Mrs. Pendyce in The
Country House? "
" Miss Young, we should like you for the Headmistress in
Madchen in Uniform.'"
"Will you read the serial in Woman's Hour? "
" I'm sorry it's such short notice, Miss Young, but Miss Exe
is down with 'flu. Could you take over her part in Curtain
A smile, a nod, and a harassed producer goes on his way
a less-worried man.
Never w r as a name more literally a household word than
that of Gladys Young. Her quiet, gracious, friendly voice
is known in almost every house in the land and as many
abroad. It belongs to the family circle, to the tranquillity
of the Sunday night serial, to the relaxation of the reading
at twenty-to-three in Woman's Hour, and sometimes, since
it is the voice of a most versatile actress, it startles us with
an incredible sarcasm as bitter as an east wind.
She was born in Newcastle but became, as one might say,
a Londoner by adoption and love, for it has long been her
home. Throughout an uneventfully happy childhood she
cherished a love of the stage. No one then, of course,
dreamed of Portland Place.
Educated at Sutton High School, and later at Bonn, in
Germany, her knowledge of the German language stood
her in good stead in later years. Back home she joined an
amateur dramatic club which included among its members
1 88
GLADYS YOUNG 189
Mabel Constanduros, the late Leslie Howard and the late
Cyril Nash. After three years with them she went on to
the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to train for the stage.
In one year and two terms she won a scholarship,
a silver and a gold medal, which promised well for
the future.
Then war broke out. For fifteen months she played in
The Man Who Stayed at Home until, in 1916, she left the
cast to marry. Her next role was very different but no less
happy. With her sister she worked at a hacking stable in
Bexhill, Sussex. They did the job thoroughly; there was no
leaving the less-pleasant tasks to the regular stable boys
while they exercised the horses on the downs, or took them
along to patrons. They saddled and unsaddled, groomed,
fed and watered their charges, cleaned their stables and
enjoyed every minute of it. They loved the open air and
the countryside and for a while it was good to leave the
indoor life behind. War seemed much further away than
a mere twenty miles of grey and guarded Channel.
But the pleasant interlude came to an end and they went
back to war-dimmed London. Gladys Young went to the
War Office to make good use of her knowledge of German
by examining candidates for censorship, and carried on with
the job until the end of the war. After her son was born
in London she spent the next few years in the country.
By 1926, however, she was longing to get back to acting.
Her old friend and colleague of the amateur dramatic club
days, Mabel Constanduros later to be famous for her
endearing Buggins family of three generations suggested
an audition for the new medium of entertainment, broad-
casting.
The headquarters were then at Savoy Hill, for those were
the days of the cat's whisker and the crystal set. Few of us
could have realised then how great a part radio was to play
in our leisure, how it would bring to our very firesides not
only great music and drama and a new form of variety,
190 WOMEN AND THE WORLD TODAY
but the thrills of the whole sporting calendar, and the great
occasions of history.
Through it we shared in the Coronation of the late King,
the Olympic Games, the wedding of the then heir to the
throne, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, and many
other brilliant, curious, and sometimes sad events which
had formerly staged their pageantry in London alone were
to come across the miles to us in humbler places. To
the blind it was to be a light in the everlasting dark.
Some artists were already making a name for themselves
on the air, their voices becoming as familiar as our own
though we had no idea what their faces looked like unless
their photographs appeared in the Radio Times. Others
were to follow, unknown as yet on any other stage, with the
new brand of humour, the catch-phrase which was to become
part of our vocabulary. Gladys Young did not know, when
she passed her audition she took the part of a cockney
character in a play about costers on Bank Holiday that she
would ever be voted the best-loved actress of the radio year.
Throughout the thirties she played many parts. During
those uneasy years other names, too, rose to fame. Arthur
Askey and Richard Murdoch climbed upon the Band
Wagon every Wednesday night and shared their ride with
millions of listeners the first great radio show of its kind.
Then, when war broke over us again, the most beloved artist
in radio history, the late Tommy Handley, with that gallery
of dear immortals, the ITMA team, kept laughter alive for
us and for the shadowed lands whose masters frowned on
humour. By now a wireless set had long become an indispen-
sable part of our pleasure.
In 1939 Gladys Young joined the newly-formed B.B.C.
Repertory Company which, after two months at Evesham,
went to Manchester. The placid face of Broadcasting House
hid the upheavals and uncertainties affecting its depleted
and scattered staffs. Plays were rehearsed in a few hours,
companies moved from one part of the country to another.
GLADYS YOUNG 191
In 1940 she went to Bristol and took part in the Children's
Hour and Schools programmes, but after six months came
back to London which, burned and bombed though it was,
was home.
War passed. The voices went out again from Broad-
casting House, standing among its wounded neighbours,
and that of Gladys Young had become as well known as the
calm impartial courtesy of the announcers who no longer
told us their names before reading the news.
In 1946 she went temporarily to the screen, appearing in
The Courtneys of Curzon Street with Anna Neagle and
Michael Wilding. She found the stars and the director,
Herbert Wilcox, wonderful people to work with, and
thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Broadcasting, however, is her first love. Indeed, to most
people she belongs to the radio. As the self-effacing Margery
Pendyce, the possessively selfish Mrs. Mallinden, the ruth-
less Headmistress of the German girls' school, the voice is
unmistakably hers. She loves character parts and has played
so many that one can imagine her taking on anybody from
Boadicea to Mrs. Bennett.
She finds making appeals a little nerve-wracking for so
much depends upon their success. She has read several
serials, both on the Home Service and Woman's Hour three
of them by her sister, E. H. Young, entitled Miss Mole,
William, and Chatterton Square. Three recent ones
are A Room with a View, The Frenchman and the Lady,
and Nothing is Safe.
In both 1949 and 1950 Gladys Young was awarded the
Silver Microphone for the best actress of the radio year,
and in 1951 received the O.B.E. in the New Year's Honours
List. A few months later she celebrated her silver jubilee
in broadcasting, as Mrs. Fraser in a revival of St. John
Ervine's play, The First Mrs. Fraser. She was chosen, yet
again, as the actress of the year, for 1952.
After, one might say, paying tribute to Wales in another
192 WOMEN AND THE WORLD TODAY
revival Emlyn Williams's The Corn is Green she went
over to Ireland to play for Radio Eireann from Dublin.
Just as youngsters far and wide listened night after night
to the kindly voice which, recognising no barriers in the
commonwealth of childhood, said, " Goodnight, children
everywhere," so millions of listeners of all ages know and
love the voice of Gladys Young. She has contributed much
to the ideal of the B.B.C. and of free people the world over
Nation shall speak Peace unto Nation.
________________________
One of these two is likely to be her birth:
Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Births Jun 1887
Young Gladys Newcastle T. 10b 162
Births Sep 1896
Young Gladys Gateshead 10a 1009
I reckon it is the first as the above hagiography says she was born in Newcastle.
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This looks like her in the 1901 census, with her parents and siblings - born in Newcastle and with a sister E H, as in the biography above:
Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Disability Where Born
YOUNG, William M Head Married M 53 1848 Shipowner & Ship Broker Bedlington, Northumberland
YOUNG, Frances J Wife Married F 51 1850 Dalston, London
YOUNG, William M Son Single M 25 1876 Ship Broker Islington, London
YOUNG, Emily H Daughter Single F 21 1880 Whitty, Yorkshire
YOUNG, Winifred M Daughter Single F 18 1883 Whitty, Yorkshire
YOUNG, Gladys Daughter Single F 13 1888 Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland
YOUNG, Joyce V Daughter F 9 1892 Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland
HOCKEN, Margaret E Niece Single F 21 1880 Holloway, London
MACAULEY, Maud A Servant Single F 21 1880 Housemaid Domestic Chelsea, London
COURT, Lucy L Servant Single F 23 1878 Parlor Maid Domestic Brockley, London
SPARKER, Ellen K Servant Single F 32 1869 Sewing Maid Domestic Paddington, London
TRUELOVE, Rose L Servant Single F 21 1880 Cook Domestic Sutton, Surrey
RG number: RG13 Piece: 580 Folio: 15 Page: 21
Registration District: Epsom Sub District: Carshalton
Enumeration District: 9 Ecclesiastical Parish: Christ Church
Civil Parish: Sutton Municipal Borough:
Address: Beaconfield, Grange Road, Sutton
County: Surrey
______________________
In 1911, they had her maternal grandmother living with them, giving her mother’s maiden name:
Name Relation Condition/ Yrs married Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Where Born
YOUNG, William M Head Married 37 years M 64 1847 Steamship Agent And Broker Bedlington, Northumberland
YOUNG, Frances Jane Wife Married 37 years F 62 1849 Dalston, London N E
YOUNG, Gladys Daughter Single F 23 1888 Newcastle on Tyne, Tesmond
HOCKEN, Margaret Mother In Law Widow F 95 1816 Private Means Egloskerry Cornwell
STIRLING, Francis May Companion Widow F 50 1861 Attendant Companion To Old Lady Madras India
TAYLOR, Cissey Servant Single F 32 1879 Domestic Servant Cook Hindley, Lancashire
COLEMAN, Louisa Servant Single F 27 1884 Domestic Servant-Parlourmaid Epsom, Surrey
SAWYER, Minnie Servant Single F 24 1887 Domestic Servant-Housemaid Mildenhall, Wiltshire
RG number: RG14 Piece: 2930
Reference: RG14PN2930 RG78PN101 RD31 SD1 ED8 SN144
Registration District: Epsom Sub District: Carshalton
Enumeration District: 8 Parish: Sutton
Address: Beaconsfield Grange Road Sutton Surrey
County: Surrey
____________________
Her death in the BMD indices:
Name Date of Birth District Vol Page
WEST GLADYS 29 April 1887 Eastbourne 18 0687
__________________
_______________
WOMEN AND THE WORLD TODAY
By PEGGY CHAMBERS
LONDON:
FORBES ROBERTSON LTD.
17 Fleet Street - B.C. 4.
First Published April, 1954..
COPYRIGHT 1954 BY
FORBES ROBERTSON LTD.
PRINTED IN GUERNSEY, C I., BRITISH ISLES, BY
GUERNSEY HERALD LIMITED, VICTORIA ROAD
____________________________________________
(pp. 188-192)
GLADYS YOUNG, O.B.E.
Radio Actress
"MISS YOUNG, will you play Mrs. Pendyce in The
Country House? "
" Miss Young, we should like you for the Headmistress in
Madchen in Uniform.'"
"Will you read the serial in Woman's Hour? "
" I'm sorry it's such short notice, Miss Young, but Miss Exe
is down with 'flu. Could you take over her part in Curtain
A smile, a nod, and a harassed producer goes on his way
a less-worried man.
Never w r as a name more literally a household word than
that of Gladys Young. Her quiet, gracious, friendly voice
is known in almost every house in the land and as many
abroad. It belongs to the family circle, to the tranquillity
of the Sunday night serial, to the relaxation of the reading
at twenty-to-three in Woman's Hour, and sometimes, since
it is the voice of a most versatile actress, it startles us with
an incredible sarcasm as bitter as an east wind.
She was born in Newcastle but became, as one might say,
a Londoner by adoption and love, for it has long been her
home. Throughout an uneventfully happy childhood she
cherished a love of the stage. No one then, of course,
dreamed of Portland Place.
Educated at Sutton High School, and later at Bonn, in
Germany, her knowledge of the German language stood
her in good stead in later years. Back home she joined an
amateur dramatic club which included among its members
1 88
GLADYS YOUNG 189
Mabel Constanduros, the late Leslie Howard and the late
Cyril Nash. After three years with them she went on to
the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to train for the stage.
In one year and two terms she won a scholarship,
a silver and a gold medal, which promised well for
the future.
Then war broke out. For fifteen months she played in
The Man Who Stayed at Home until, in 1916, she left the
cast to marry. Her next role was very different but no less
happy. With her sister she worked at a hacking stable in
Bexhill, Sussex. They did the job thoroughly; there was no
leaving the less-pleasant tasks to the regular stable boys
while they exercised the horses on the downs, or took them
along to patrons. They saddled and unsaddled, groomed,
fed and watered their charges, cleaned their stables and
enjoyed every minute of it. They loved the open air and
the countryside and for a while it was good to leave the
indoor life behind. War seemed much further away than
a mere twenty miles of grey and guarded Channel.
But the pleasant interlude came to an end and they went
back to war-dimmed London. Gladys Young went to the
War Office to make good use of her knowledge of German
by examining candidates for censorship, and carried on with
the job until the end of the war. After her son was born
in London she spent the next few years in the country.
By 1926, however, she was longing to get back to acting.
Her old friend and colleague of the amateur dramatic club
days, Mabel Constanduros later to be famous for her
endearing Buggins family of three generations suggested
an audition for the new medium of entertainment, broad-
casting.
The headquarters were then at Savoy Hill, for those were
the days of the cat's whisker and the crystal set. Few of us
could have realised then how great a part radio was to play
in our leisure, how it would bring to our very firesides not
only great music and drama and a new form of variety,
190 WOMEN AND THE WORLD TODAY
but the thrills of the whole sporting calendar, and the great
occasions of history.
Through it we shared in the Coronation of the late King,
the Olympic Games, the wedding of the then heir to the
throne, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, and many
other brilliant, curious, and sometimes sad events which
had formerly staged their pageantry in London alone were
to come across the miles to us in humbler places. To
the blind it was to be a light in the everlasting dark.
Some artists were already making a name for themselves
on the air, their voices becoming as familiar as our own
though we had no idea what their faces looked like unless
their photographs appeared in the Radio Times. Others
were to follow, unknown as yet on any other stage, with the
new brand of humour, the catch-phrase which was to become
part of our vocabulary. Gladys Young did not know, when
she passed her audition she took the part of a cockney
character in a play about costers on Bank Holiday that she
would ever be voted the best-loved actress of the radio year.
Throughout the thirties she played many parts. During
those uneasy years other names, too, rose to fame. Arthur
Askey and Richard Murdoch climbed upon the Band
Wagon every Wednesday night and shared their ride with
millions of listeners the first great radio show of its kind.
Then, when war broke over us again, the most beloved artist
in radio history, the late Tommy Handley, with that gallery
of dear immortals, the ITMA team, kept laughter alive for
us and for the shadowed lands whose masters frowned on
humour. By now a wireless set had long become an indispen-
sable part of our pleasure.
In 1939 Gladys Young joined the newly-formed B.B.C.
Repertory Company which, after two months at Evesham,
went to Manchester. The placid face of Broadcasting House
hid the upheavals and uncertainties affecting its depleted
and scattered staffs. Plays were rehearsed in a few hours,
companies moved from one part of the country to another.
GLADYS YOUNG 191
In 1940 she went to Bristol and took part in the Children's
Hour and Schools programmes, but after six months came
back to London which, burned and bombed though it was,
was home.
War passed. The voices went out again from Broad-
casting House, standing among its wounded neighbours,
and that of Gladys Young had become as well known as the
calm impartial courtesy of the announcers who no longer
told us their names before reading the news.
In 1946 she went temporarily to the screen, appearing in
The Courtneys of Curzon Street with Anna Neagle and
Michael Wilding. She found the stars and the director,
Herbert Wilcox, wonderful people to work with, and
thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Broadcasting, however, is her first love. Indeed, to most
people she belongs to the radio. As the self-effacing Margery
Pendyce, the possessively selfish Mrs. Mallinden, the ruth-
less Headmistress of the German girls' school, the voice is
unmistakably hers. She loves character parts and has played
so many that one can imagine her taking on anybody from
Boadicea to Mrs. Bennett.
She finds making appeals a little nerve-wracking for so
much depends upon their success. She has read several
serials, both on the Home Service and Woman's Hour three
of them by her sister, E. H. Young, entitled Miss Mole,
William, and Chatterton Square. Three recent ones
are A Room with a View, The Frenchman and the Lady,
and Nothing is Safe.
In both 1949 and 1950 Gladys Young was awarded the
Silver Microphone for the best actress of the radio year,
and in 1951 received the O.B.E. in the New Year's Honours
List. A few months later she celebrated her silver jubilee
in broadcasting, as Mrs. Fraser in a revival of St. John
Ervine's play, The First Mrs. Fraser. She was chosen, yet
again, as the actress of the year, for 1952.
After, one might say, paying tribute to Wales in another
192 WOMEN AND THE WORLD TODAY
revival Emlyn Williams's The Corn is Green she went
over to Ireland to play for Radio Eireann from Dublin.
Just as youngsters far and wide listened night after night
to the kindly voice which, recognising no barriers in the
commonwealth of childhood, said, " Goodnight, children
everywhere," so millions of listeners of all ages know and
love the voice of Gladys Young. She has contributed much
to the ideal of the B.B.C. and of free people the world over
Nation shall speak Peace unto Nation.
________________________
One of these two is likely to be her birth:
Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Births Jun 1887
Young Gladys Newcastle T. 10b 162
Births Sep 1896
Young Gladys Gateshead 10a 1009
I reckon it is the first as the above hagiography says she was born in Newcastle.
______________________
This looks like her in the 1901 census, with her parents and siblings - born in Newcastle and with a sister E H, as in the biography above:
Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Disability Where Born
YOUNG, William M Head Married M 53 1848 Shipowner & Ship Broker Bedlington, Northumberland
YOUNG, Frances J Wife Married F 51 1850 Dalston, London
YOUNG, William M Son Single M 25 1876 Ship Broker Islington, London
YOUNG, Emily H Daughter Single F 21 1880 Whitty, Yorkshire
YOUNG, Winifred M Daughter Single F 18 1883 Whitty, Yorkshire
YOUNG, Gladys Daughter Single F 13 1888 Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland
YOUNG, Joyce V Daughter F 9 1892 Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland
HOCKEN, Margaret E Niece Single F 21 1880 Holloway, London
MACAULEY, Maud A Servant Single F 21 1880 Housemaid Domestic Chelsea, London
COURT, Lucy L Servant Single F 23 1878 Parlor Maid Domestic Brockley, London
SPARKER, Ellen K Servant Single F 32 1869 Sewing Maid Domestic Paddington, London
TRUELOVE, Rose L Servant Single F 21 1880 Cook Domestic Sutton, Surrey
RG number: RG13 Piece: 580 Folio: 15 Page: 21
Registration District: Epsom Sub District: Carshalton
Enumeration District: 9 Ecclesiastical Parish: Christ Church
Civil Parish: Sutton Municipal Borough:
Address: Beaconfield, Grange Road, Sutton
County: Surrey
______________________
In 1911, they had her maternal grandmother living with them, giving her mother’s maiden name:
Name Relation Condition/ Yrs married Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Where Born
YOUNG, William M Head Married 37 years M 64 1847 Steamship Agent And Broker Bedlington, Northumberland
YOUNG, Frances Jane Wife Married 37 years F 62 1849 Dalston, London N E
YOUNG, Gladys Daughter Single F 23 1888 Newcastle on Tyne, Tesmond
HOCKEN, Margaret Mother In Law Widow F 95 1816 Private Means Egloskerry Cornwell
STIRLING, Francis May Companion Widow F 50 1861 Attendant Companion To Old Lady Madras India
TAYLOR, Cissey Servant Single F 32 1879 Domestic Servant Cook Hindley, Lancashire
COLEMAN, Louisa Servant Single F 27 1884 Domestic Servant-Parlourmaid Epsom, Surrey
SAWYER, Minnie Servant Single F 24 1887 Domestic Servant-Housemaid Mildenhall, Wiltshire
RG number: RG14 Piece: 2930
Reference: RG14PN2930 RG78PN101 RD31 SD1 ED8 SN144
Registration District: Epsom Sub District: Carshalton
Enumeration District: 8 Parish: Sutton
Address: Beaconsfield Grange Road Sutton Surrey
County: Surrey
____________________
Her death in the BMD indices:
Name Date of Birth District Vol Page
WEST GLADYS 29 April 1887 Eastbourne 18 0687
__________________
Notes for Algernon Henry Pascoe & Gladys (Family)
This contains their wedding:
Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
Marriages Dec 1916
Head Ethel M Pearson Epsom 2a 61
Pearson John L Head Epsom 2a 61
West Algernon H P Young Epsom 2a 61
Young Gladys West Epsom 2a 61
__________________
In the Times of Nov 15 1916 there was this announcement of their engagement:
Mr A West and Miss Young
A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place, between Algernon West, Black Watch, only surviving son of Mr and Mrs Reginald West, and grandson of the Right Hon Sir Algernon West, G.C.B. and Col the Hon Charles Hay Drummond, and Gladys, youngest surviving daughter of Mr and Mrs W M Young, of Sutton, Surrey.
___________________
Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
Marriages Dec 1916
Head Ethel M Pearson Epsom 2a 61
Pearson John L Head Epsom 2a 61
West Algernon H P Young Epsom 2a 61
Young Gladys West Epsom 2a 61
__________________
In the Times of Nov 15 1916 there was this announcement of their engagement:
Mr A West and Miss Young
A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place, between Algernon West, Black Watch, only surviving son of Mr and Mrs Reginald West, and grandson of the Right Hon Sir Algernon West, G.C.B. and Col the Hon Charles Hay Drummond, and Gladys, youngest surviving daughter of Mr and Mrs W M Young, of Sutton, Surrey.
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