Arthur Young - The Battle of Broodseinde

Arthur Young is the son of 2nd Lieutenant Edgar Young, an officer in the 1st Infantry Brigade during WW1. The Taranaki solicitor was 31 when he went to war in 1915, and was seriously wounded in the last hours of the Battle of Broodseinde which began on October 4, 1917, just a few days before New Zealand's darkest day in war, the Battle of Passchendaele (12th October, 1917). When he returned to New Zealand, Edgar married and had four sons, all of whom were high achievers. His third son, Arthur Young, was head boy and dux of King's College in Auckland before following his father into the legal profession. He later co-founded national law firm Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young and, at 81, still goes in to work every day. He talks to Kim about his father, his family, and the 100 year commemorations of Passchendaele happening in the upcoming week.