John Young (1888 – 25 September 1915) was a Scottish professional

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who played as an inside right in the Scottish League for

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and Dundee Hibernian.

Personal life

Young worked as a

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labourer and was married with one child. During the early months of the

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, he enlisted as a

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in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and arrived on the

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, in trenches at

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, on 30 June 1915. Young was killed on 25 September 1915, during a

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on Little Willie Trench, north of the Hohenzollern Redoubt, during the Battle of Loos. He is commemorated on the

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1888 births 1915 deaths Men's association football inside forwards Ayr F.C. players British Army personnel of World War I British military personnel killed in World War I Celtic F.C. players Dundee United F.C. players Footballers from Glasgow Greenock Morton F.C. players Missing in action of World War I Missing person cases in France Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders soldiers Scottish men's footballers Scottish Football League players Scottish Junior Football Association players Strathclyde F.C. players Military personnel from Glasgow {{Scotland-footy-forward-1880s-stub

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