Later Life
He received his Victoria Cross from King George V at Buckingham Palace on 30April 1919.
After the war, having attained the rank of sergeant, Young returned to his old job in Montreal. Some years later he developed tuberculosis and was admitted to a sanatorium in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, where he died on 7 November 1929. He was buried in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. His grave, marked with a somewhat weather-worn headstone, is in Section L/2, plot 2019.
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