[2] He captained the club and after his retirement as a player was a member of the committee and acted as Honorary Treasurer.
[4] Prior to the First World War, he worked as an iron merchant's clerk.
[1] After Britain's entry into the war in August 1914, Young enlisted as a private in the Highland Light Infantry and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in late 1915.
[1][5] Young was shot in the knee in 1917 and evacuated to a hospital in London,[1] but the injury did not prevent him from returning to football before the end of the year.
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