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Douglas Alan Youngs

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Douglas Alan AWMM
  • Surname
    Youngs AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • NZ401297 AWMM
    • 133710 AWMM
    • 59496 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    6 January 1920 AWMM Essex, England AWMM
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  • Next of kin on embarkation
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Service

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 1940 AWMM
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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
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Medical history

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Biographical information

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  • Father of David, Penny, Christopher

    Flight Lieutenant Youngs served three tours of duty in the South West Pacific Area during WW2. He was a pilot with 19 and 25 Squadrons and flew Kittyhawk and Corsair fighter/bomber aircraft.

    He served with the Royal New Zealand Air Force from 1940 to 1946 before joining the Royal Air Force in 1947.

    RAF service number 59496 AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    19 December 2010 AWMM
    Age 90 AWMM
    Christchurch, Canterbury AWMM
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  • Obituary
    Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 23 December 2010 AWMM
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  • Douglas Youngs was my uncle. Although I only met him a few times while he was alive, I found him to be a very unassuming man. He was a real gentleman and a credit to his generation. I now wish I had spent more time with him. He never talked about his Wartime duties with me. He was that type of man.
    Public - Gregory Laurence - Other relative - 25 June 2016
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Sources

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    • Hanson, C. (2001). By such deeds: honours and awards in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, 1923-1999. Christchurch, N.Z.: Volplane Press. AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • Hanson, C. (2001). By such deeds: honours and awards in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, 1923-1999. Christchurch, N.Z.: Volplane Press. AWMM
      Hanson, C. (2001). p.531 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death Notice: New Zealand Herald, 23 December 2010 AWMM
    • List of RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Personnel - Embarkation Lists, November 1940 - July 1942. Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R17845762). AWMM

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25 June 2016Gregory LaurenceMercerOther relative

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