Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | John Young[1] | ||
Date of birth | 1888 | ||
Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 25 September 1915 (aged 28)[2] | ||
Place of death | near Hohenzollern Redoubt, France | ||
Position(s) | Inside right | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
–1908 | Strathclyde | ||
1908–1913 | Celtic | 4 | (0) |
1908–1909 | → Morton (loan) | 16 | (3) |
1910 | → Ayr (loan) | 4 | (0) |
1911–1912 | → Dundee Hibernian (loan) | 3 | (0) |
1912–1913 | → Dundee Hibernian (loan) | 0 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
John Young (1888 – 25 September 1915) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as an inside right in the Scottish League for Morton, Celtic, Ayr and Dundee Hibernian.[1]
Personal life
Young worked as a foundry labourer and was married with one child.[3] During the early months of the First World War, he enlisted as a private in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and arrived on the Western Front,[4] in trenches at Locon, France, on 30 June 1915.[3]
Death
Young was killed on 25 September 1915, during a frontal attack on Little Willie Trench, north of the Hohenzollern Redoubt, during the Battle of Loos.[3] He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.[2]
Career statistics
Club | Season | League | Scottish Cup | Total | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Celtic | 1908–09[1] | Scottish First Division | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | |
1909–10[5] | Scottish First Division | 2 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | ||
1910–11[5] | Scottish First Division | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Total | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
Morton (loan) | 1908–09[1] | Scottish First Division | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 3 |
Ayr (loan) | 1909–10[1] | Scottish Second Division | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
Dundee Hibernian (loan) | 1911–12[6] | Scottish Second Division | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Career total | 27 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 31 | 4 |
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e Litster, John. Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications.
- ^ a b "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ a b c "Remembering a fallen former Celt". Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ "John Young | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Celtic Player John Young Details". www.fitbastats.com. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ "John Young | Player Statistics | Dundee United". Arab Archive. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- 1888 births
- 1915 deaths
- Men's association football inside forwards
- Ayr F.C. players
- British Army personnel of World War I
- British military personnel killed in World War I
- Celtic F.C. players
- Dundee United F.C. players
- Footballers from Glasgow
- Greenock Morton F.C. players
- Missing in action of World War I
- Missing person cases in France
- Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders soldiers
- Scottish men's footballers
- Scottish Football League players
- Scottish Junior Football Association players
- Strathclyde F.C. players
- Military personnel from Glasgow
- 20th-century Scottish sportsmen
- Scottish football forward, 1880s birth stubs