Private Wilfred Young
235081 2nd South Lancashire Regiment
Lived at 11 Oak Street
Burnley Express 15th June 1918 - 22nd June 1918

Brother John Young 2/5th East Lancashire Regiment

“Born 11th September 1898, enlisted in Burnley on the 28th August 1916 into the 4th East Lancashire Regiment, later being transferred to the 2nd South Lancashire’s. Badly wounded on the 10th April 1918 in the great German advance, he was taken prisoner, spending time in hospitals in Belgium then in Stettin, Germany (now Poland).
He was repatriated on the 21st August 1918 and spent a further two years recovering from his wounds in a London's Camberwell hospital, before being finally discharged on the 1st April 1920
He said that he had been wounded near Ploegsteert Belgium”

(Information courtesy of his son Clarence)