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Military service
Service number:
C/939
Age:
26
Rank:
Wing Commander
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
10 Sqdn.
Birth:
June 29, 1917
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 27, 1939
Death:
September 4, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 2. Column 3.
Additional information
Son of Ralph and Edith Young of Oakville, Ontario. Husband of Constance Young of Oakville, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Wing Commander John Maitland Young
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Photo of John Maitland Young
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Inscription
John Young was a student at Appleby College. His name is inscribed on a tablet on the Memorial School building, shown above. The building was built as a memorial to the members of the Appleby Community killed in the Second World War. Every Remembrance Day the school Cadet Corps parades at a service in the Chapel, built as a memorial to those members of the Appleby Community killed in the First World War, and the names on the Honour Rolls from both World Wars are read out. -
Photo of John Maitland Young
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Oakville Book of Remembrance
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Oakville Remembers Biography
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Oakville Remembers Biography (Page 2)
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Oakville Remembers Biography (Page 3)
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of JOHN MAITLAND YOUNG
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Photo of JOHN MAITLAND YOUNG
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Record of Service
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Certificate
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Letter
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star May 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star May 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Wing Commander John Maitland Young as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023. -
Memorial
Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Telegraph Journal newspaper c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander John Maitland Young
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander John Maitland Young
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander John Maitland Young
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander John Maitland Young
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander John Maitland Young
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander John Maitland Young
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander John Maitland Young
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander John Maitland Young
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander John Maitland Young
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 229 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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