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Military service
Service number:
R/204280
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
166 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
December 31, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. A. 4.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Clarence Young
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Grave Marker
Grave of Flight Sergeant Clarence Young at the Nederweert War Cemetery in the Netherlands. -
Memorial
Memorial for the crew of RAF 166 Sqdrn Lancaster ME647 in Eygelshoven NL -
Photo of Clarence Young
Air Gunner/Flight Sergeant Clarence Young was born December 9, 1924 in Cobalt - Cochrane District-Ontario as the youngest son of Joseph Clark Young and Mabel Young-Cousineau. On his registration form for the RCAF, Young reported having had 9 hours of Mr Harry Free from the Kingston Flying Club and flying solo for 4 hours. And he also wants to fly at the RCAF. But unfortunately it turns out that he is too small to be trained as a pilot in the RCAF. For the rest he is fit to work in an air crew, for example as a gunner in a turret. Young already was trained as a MG gunner at the PWOR in Kingston and after he enlisted he was promptly trained to become an 'air gunner'. On March 30, 1944, he sailed from Halifax to Europe, where he was assigned the 'mid-upper gunner' of the Lancaster ME647 at the 166th squadron. With his crew he flies 23 bombing flights until the fatal on New Year's Eve 1944. Photo courtesy of Jan Nieuwenhuis (NL). -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Clarence Young is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Clarence Young is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Identification
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Service Book
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Attestation paper
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Newspaper clipping
From the Kingston Whig-Standard. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Kingston Whig-Standard. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kingston Whig-Standard. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Clarence Young
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Clarence Young
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Clarence Young
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Clarence Young
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Clarence Young
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Clarence Young
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Clarence Young
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Clarence Young
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Clarence Young
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 485 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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