Major-General James Charles Young CB (1858–1926) was a British Army officer.

Young was commissioned into the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot on 11 November 1876.

[2] He then became Deputy Assistant Adjutant General in South Africa in 1892 and commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa in 1899 and fought on the Second Boer War.

[2] He went on to be Assistant Adjutant General of the 4th (Quetta) Division in 1904, commander of the 7th Ferozepore Brigade in November 1907,for which he was promoted to temporary brigadier general,[3] and commander of the 4th Rawalpindi Brigade in February 1909.

[4] After that Young became General Officer Commanding Home Counties Division in October 1912.