Source: Gathering of Heroes
Source: Gathering Our Heroes.
His brother, Private Harry “Ham” Everton Young, served with the 18th Battalion.
Family Search: When Private Edwin Roy Albert Young was born on 31 October 1884, in Blenheim, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, Alfred Edgar Young, was 40 and his mother, Mary Robinson Arrol, was 34. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Maud Austin. He lived in Kent, Georgian Highlands, Grey, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 32, his occupation is listed as baker in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 7 March 1940, in Chatham, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 55, and was buried in Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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