LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Leonard Roy YOUNG
Service No: 424815
Born: Wardell NSW, 24 August 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 9 October 1922
Unit: No. 37 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 37 Squadron Wellington aircraft LP574), Hungary, 22 November 1944, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Budapest War Cemetery, Hungary
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Herbert Martin Young and Cora Young, of Emmaville, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Emmaville NSW
Remembered: Panel 133, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: University of Sydney World War 2 Roll of Honour, Camperdown NSW
Remembered: NSW Department of Education Teachers and Trainees WW2 Honour Roll, Sydney NSW
At 1710 hours on the night of 22 November 1944 Wellington LP574 took off from the Tortorella landing ground to attack the marshalling yards at Szombathely, Hungary. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. Returning crews reported enemy night fighters active in the target area and some aircraft were seen shot down. In 1947 a Missing Research and Enquiry Unit reported that LP574 had exploded in the air presumably as a result of enemy aircraft and crashed at Kuriapuzza on 22 November 1944. All the crew members had been killed.
The crew members of LP574 were:
Sergeant Wilfred Carter (1622293) (RAFVR) (Bomb Aimer)
Flight Sergeant Robert Charles Chesterman (425763) (RNZAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Charles Havill Cockram (1852449) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Jack Harrison Emmott (422905) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Leonard Roy Young (424815) (Navigator)
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, 166/45/87
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line