Service Details
Name:
 YOUNG
Given Name:
 WILLIAM JOHN
Initials:
 W J
Service No:
 778478
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 50 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1941-12-15
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Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Hampden I AE380, aircraft failed to return from operational flight over Ostend, Belgium
Additional
Information:
Son of Macdonald and Mary Young, of Fort Jameson, Northern Rhodesia. Commemoration stone in Troqueer Cemetery, Dumfriesshire
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Oostende, West-Vlaanderen
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Cemetery:
 OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Plot 9 Row 4. Grave 17.

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