Captain Brian Gilmore Young, DSO (25 September 1930 – 24 December 2009) was a British

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

officer, naval aviator and

Falklands War The Falklands War ( es, link=no, Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial de ...

veteran.

Naval career

He joined the Royal Navy in 1944 as a cadet, first at Eaton Hall, Chester, then at Dartmouth. He served as a midshipman and sub-lieutenant in the battleship , the light carrier and the sloop . Young learned to fly in the United States, serving from 1954 to 1958 with

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and

804 Naval Air Squadron 804 Naval Air Squadron (804 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy, formed in November 1939 from part of 769 NAS Sea Gladiators which had been detached to RNAS Hatston. The squadron was merged into 800 NAS in June 1944 and subsequent ...

s, flying

Hawker Sea Hawk The Hawker Sea Hawk is a British single-seat jet day fighter formerly of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA), the air branch of the Royal Navy (RN), built by Hawker Aircraft and its sister company, Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft. Although its design origina ...

jet fighters from the carriers , , and , and participating in ground attacks in Egypt during the Suez War.

Falklands War

Young was captain of the destroyer and commander of the ships detached to recover South Georgia, known as

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References

1930 births 2009 deaths Royal Navy officers Falklands War in South Georgia Royal Navy personnel of the Falklands War Companions of the Distinguished Service Order {{UK-navy-bio-stub