Awards & Winners

John Francis Young

Date of Birth 14-January-1893
Place of Birth Kidderminster
(United Kingdom)
Nationality Canada, United Kingdom
Profession Soldier
John Francis Young VC was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Young was one of seven Canadians to be awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on September 2, 1918. The other six Victoria Cross recipients were Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney, William Metcalf, Cyrus Wesley Peck, Walter Leigh Rayfield, Bellenden Hutcheson and Arthur George Knight.

Awards by John Francis Young

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1918


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on September 2, 1918 as Private of the 87th Battalion, CEF during the First World War.)