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![Newspaper advert for the homecoming film of Private William Young VC](https://d1xknzn7m6thdw.cloudfront.net/resources/william-young-vc/private-young-film-advertb_280w.jpg)
Newspaper advert for the homecoming film of Private William Young VC
Add to board![Private William Young VC the day before he died of his wounds](https://d1xknzn7m6thdw.cloudfront.net/resources/william-young-vc/william-young-vc-in-preston3_280w.jpg)
Private William Young VC the day before he died of his wounds
Add to board![Private William Young's funeral](https://d1xknzn7m6thdw.cloudfront.net/resources/william-young-vc/william-youngs-funeralb_280w.jpg)
Private William Young's funeral
Add to board![Private William Young VC at the civic reception in Preston with his large family.](https://d1xknzn7m6thdw.cloudfront.net/resources/william-young-vc/william-young-vc-in-prestonb_280w.jpg)
Private William Young VC at the civic reception in Preston with his large family.
Add to board![Private Youngs medals](https://d1xknzn7m6thdw.cloudfront.net/resources/william-young-vc/william-young-medalsb_280w.jpg)
Private Youngs medals
Add to board![Private Young's Victoria Cross seen from the front](https://d1xknzn7m6thdw.cloudfront.net/resources/william-young-vc/william-young-victoria-crossd_edited-1_280w.jpg)
Private Young's Victoria Cross seen from the front
Add to board![Private Young's Victoria Cross seen from the backt](https://d1xknzn7m6thdw.cloudfront.net/resources/william-young-vc/william-young-vc-backd_editedd_280w.jpg)
Private Young's Victoria Cross seen from the backt
Add to board![Private William Young's funeral cortege](https://d1xknzn7m6thdw.cloudfront.net/resources/william-young-vc/william-youngs-funeralc_280w.jpg)
Private William Young's funeral cortege
Add to board![Private William Young VC at the civic reception in Preston](https://d1xknzn7m6thdw.cloudfront.net/resources/william-young-vc/william-young-vc-in-prestone_edited-1_280w.jpg)
Private William Young VC at the civic reception in Preston
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![Victoria Cross medal factsheet and list of Lancashire Regiment VC recipients](https://d1xknzn7m6thdw.cloudfront.net/resources/william-young-vc/vc-screenshot_280w.jpg)
Victoria Cross medal factsheet and list of Lancashire Regiment VC recipients
Add to board![Royal Mint Museum cartoon fact sheet on the process of making medals](https://d1xknzn7m6thdw.cloudfront.net/resources/william-young-vc/cartoonscreenshot_280w.jpg)
Royal Mint Museum cartoon fact sheet on the process of making medals
Add to board![Fact sheet on the Royal Mint during WW1](https://d1xknzn7m6thdw.cloudfront.net/resources/william-young-vc/screenshotfact_280w.jpg)
Fact sheet on the Royal Mint during WW1
Add to board![Fact sheet on the Royal Mint during WW1 (Welsh language)](https://d1xknzn7m6thdw.cloudfront.net/resources/william-young-vc/screenshotfsheetw_280w.jpg)
Fact sheet on the Royal Mint during WW1 (Welsh language)
Add to board![Royal Mint Museum cartoon fact sheet on the process of making medals (Welsh language)](https://d1xknzn7m6thdw.cloudfront.net/resources/william-young-vc/cartoonscreenshotw_280w.jpg)
Royal Mint Museum cartoon fact sheet on the process of making medals (Welsh language)
Add to board25 Supporting Links
External Site Links
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Preston Remembers project website
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
The 8th East Lancs Regiment website
Film footage of the Battle of Ypres - teacher resource
Film footage of the Battle of the Somme from British Pathe
More about William Young VC from the BBC
Google map reference to Foncquevilliers, in France where William saved the life of his Sergeant
Winner of WWI Victoria Cross paving stone design competition from Gov.uk
William Young's memorial from Preston Digital Archive
WWI Reconstructive surgery - BBC article
The Gillies Archive about plastic surgery for WWI wounded soldiers
Archive film of Inside Woolwich Arsenal 1914 -18
You Tube video about the 'Father of Plastic Surgery' Harold Gillies revolutionary techniques
BBC - How women's lives changed in WWI
BBC - Animated map of the Western Front 1914 -1918
About the artist Christopher Nevinson from the BBC
What was Kitchener's Army? from the historylearningsite
The unknown soldier's journey from trench to tomb from the BBC
How did WWI change the way we treat war injuries today? - BBC
Film about the use of gas during WWI
Educational resources from the Royal Mint Museum
Help for Heroes charity website
Stories of WW1 servicemen from the National Army Museum
Forces War Records - History of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment