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Mary Helen Young
(1883-1945) was a nurse during  World War I, and a and Resistance worker in France during World War II. She died in Ravensbruck concentration camp.

Early Life
Mary Young was born in Aberdeen, the daughter of Alexander Young, a grocer's clerk and his wife Elizabeth Ann (née Burnett). The family moved to Edinburgh where she worked after leaving school as a dressmaker in Jenner's department store, but later trained as a nurse at Kingston County Hospital, Surrey. She qualified in 1909. On the outbreak of war in 1914, she volunteered to serve in France in the British Army zone. after 1918, she stayed on in France working as a private nurse in Paris, while regularly returning to Scotland. She remained there after the German occupation during World War II, despite being interned for a while in Besançon. Although by now over 60 and in fragile health (she was only 4 ' 7" tall), she helped the Resistance, and housed a radio point. She was arrested in 1943 on suspicion of helping British soldiers escape, and sent to the camp for female political prisoners in Ravensbruck. Although no official record of her death there, probably from privation and ill health, has been found, she is recorded by ... as having died on 8 March 1945.