Son of James Black and Evangeline May (née Fielding) Young of Truro, Nova Scotia. Private Young enlisted on 25 November 1915 in Truro, Nova Scotia, stating he was employed as a cabinet maker and was single.
Brother of Private Harry L. Young (1499) who lost his life while a member of the Composite Battalion in Canada on 6 December 1917. He was travelling on a train into Halifax when the infamous Halifax Explosion occurred and Private Clifford Frank Young (488330) who died of wounds while serving with the Royal Canadian Regiment on 19 May 1917.
WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Wailly is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais about 6 kilometres south-west from Arras in the valley of the little river Crinchon. WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY stands above the village on its outskirts in part of the old orchard.
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