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Clyde Thomas Young
Clyde Thomas Young
Flight Sergeant
R/154828
Royal Canadian Air Force
519 RAF Squadron
September 15, 1922
Springhill, Cumberland Co., NS
April 24, 1942
Moncton, NB
20
March 12, 1944
22
Runnymede Memorial
Panel 255
Commemorated on page 485 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on October 16
Clyde Thomas Young was the son of James and Elizabeth Young, of Springhill, Nova Scotia.
Flight Sergeant Young joined 519 Squadron on February 25, 1944. On the morning of March 12,
1944, Ventura Aircraft FN. 958 of Squadron 519, with a crew of five, left RAF Station Skitten, Caithness,
Scotland at 8:54 am on a meteorological sortie. Flight Sergeant Young was the Wireless Operator/Air
Gunner on the flight.
The aircraft failed to return to RAF Skitten. A search by Naval and Air Forces was undertaken but
failed to locate the aircraft or members of the crew. The crew was presumed to have been lost at sea.