1924 and 1936, it remained the standard work on Westminster's budgetary processes until well into the 1950s. In September 1915 he took part Admiral Troubridge's mission to the Danube, whose aim was to stop the Austro-Hungarians sending supplies via the Black Sea to Gallipoli (in the absence of a direct land link, as Bulgaria did not join the Central Powers until October). The following month he heard his first shot fired in anger when an Austrian sentry fired a rifle at his ship. Facing a tribunal hearing to determine his claim for conscientious-objector status following the introduction of conscription, Clive Bell appealed to Young in June 1916 for a testimonial which was duly provided. Later in the war Young served on Harwich light cruisers, naval siege guns at Flanders, the Zeebrugge Raid in which, commanding a rear gun on , he was severely wounded, necessitating the amputation of his right arm, and, finally, in the Russian campaign, commanding an armoured train on the line south of Archangel. His war service brought the awards of the Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Service Cross and Bar, French Croix de guerre, and the Serbian Silver Medal. He recounted his war experiences in his colourful 1920 memoir, By Sea and Land. Post-war career Post-war he started his rise up the political ladder in February 1919 when he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to H.A.L. Fisher, President of the Board of Education. In April 1921 he was promoted to Financial Secretary to the Treasury. In this capacity he was the link between the government and the 'Geddes Axe', the committee of business experts established by Lloyd George in the aftermath of the First World War to undertake a fundamental review of government expenditure in the hope of identifying major savings. In March 1922 Young married sculptor Kathleen Scott, née Bruce, widow of Captain Robert Falcon Scott. With the marriage he became stepfather to Kathleen's son, the future naturalist and yachtsman, Peter Scott. In August 1923 Kathleen, aged 45, gave birth to their son Wayland Young, who became a writer and Labour politician. Through Cambridge and Bloomsbury, Young had a long-standing friendship with E.M. Forster. Suffering writer's block while working on A Passage to India, the novelist was Young's guest at The Lacket in early May 1922. Shortly afterwards he wrote to Young declaring, "an unfinished novel’s before me now, and sometimes I work at it with