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VC1073 John Francis Young
David
Name John Francis Young No.
VC Issue No. 1073 Awards VC
Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force, 87th (Canadian Grenadier Guards) Battalion, Quebec Regiment, D Company
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England
Place Of Death St Agathe-des Monts Sanatorium, Laurentian Mountains, Quebec, Canada
Buried/Location Ashes Cimitiere Mont-Royal (Mount Royal Cemetery), 1297 Chemin de la Foret, Outremont, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section L-6, Plot 2019-GH
Gazetted 14 December 1918
VC Presented 12 April 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Cimitiere Mont-Royal (Mount Royal Cemetery), 1297 Chemin de la Foret, Outremont, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
P Named Family Headstone, Cimitiere Mont-Royal (Mount Royal Cemetery), 1297 Chemin de la Foret, Outremont, Montreal, Canada
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
P Victoria Cross Memorial, York Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Barrie Military Heritage Park, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, War Memorial, Kidderminster, Worcestershire
P Memorial Plaque, Dury Crucifix Cemetery, Dury, Pas-de-Calais, France
P Young Close, Kidderminster, Worcestershire
By The Way…
He died young from a combination of the effects of gassing, and T.B
VC Held By
Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
BORN 14 January 1893
DIED 7 November 1929 AGE 36
VC Won 2 September 1918 AGE 25
Place VC Won Dury-Arras Sector, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
