LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Ivan Charles YOUNG
Service No: 400402
Born: Oakleigh VIC, 6 December 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 August 1940
Unit: No. 450 Squadron
Died: Air Operations: (No. 450 Squadron Kittyhawk aircraft AL170), Libya, 12 June 1942, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Stanley George and Edith Olive Young, of Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Column 265, Alamein Memorial, Egypt
Remembered: Panel 105, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 12 June 1942, Kittyhawk AL170 flown by Pilot Officer Young was one of a formation of two aircraft on a reconnaissance mission in the Trigh Capuzzo area, east of El Adem. During the flight, the formation reported it was being attacked by enemy aircraft, and AL170 failed to return from the reconnaissance. A report received from an escaped Prisoner of War stated that the body of Pilot Officer Young had been buried 20 miles from Tobruk, but this could not be confirmed.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/65/14