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225201Sqd.Ldr. Alfred Markham Young
Royal Air Force 106 Squadron
from:Epping, NSW, Australia
(d.26 Jun 1943)
Alfred Markham Young was born on 9th of June 1917 in Marrickville, New South Wales, the third child of Alfred Gordon Young and his wife, Vera Blanche Markham. His father was a successful barrister in Sydney, Australia.Alfred Markham travelled to England in 1939 and joined the Royal Air Force where he trained as a pilot, one of twenty thousand Australian airmen who served with Bomber Command during the 1939-45 War. Alfred was a Squadron Leader in 106 Squadron Bomber Command, Service No. 36135, and was stationed at RAF Syerston near Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Alfred was killed during the Battle of the Ruhr on 26 Jun 1943. Flying a Lancaster Mark III, Serial No. ED125, Code ZN - Alfred's final mission departed at 22.40pm on 24 June 1943 when 473 RAF bombers attacked the Nordstern synthetic-oil plant at Gelsenkirchen. The raid was unsuccessful due to cloud and "unserviceable" equipment on 5 of the 12 Oboe-equipped Mosquitoes. Alfred's plane failed to return and it is not known where it crashed. He was 26 years of age and is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial, in Surrey, England.
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