Brabazon Duke YONGE

YONGE, Brabazon Duke

Service Number: Officer
Enlisted: 30 January 1934
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: HMAS Canberra (I)
Born: Summer Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 25 January 1920
Home Town: Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Sydney Grammar School, Royal Australian Naval College, Victoria & Royal Navy Engineering College, Plymouth
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Killed In Action, Savo Island, Solomon Islands, 9 August 1942, aged 22 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Moss Vale RSL War Memorial, Moss Vale War Memorial, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea
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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Brabazon Duke YONGE was born in Summer Hill, Sydney , NSW on 25th January, 1920

His parents were Arthur Duke YOUNG and Margery Newcomen CASEMENT who married in Sydney in 1919

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial & the Plymouth War Memorial

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His father Arthur served in WW1 (SN 32964) & returned to Australia in 1918 and served in WW2 (SN N244988 ) & was discharged in 1944

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Joined the Australian Navy as a Cadet on 01 Jan 1934

"Lieutenant Brabazon Duke Yonge, RAN, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Duke Yonge, of Moss Vale, was killed last August 9 in action in HMAS Canberra at the Solomon Islands. This youth was a grandson of the late Doctor Casement, still well-remembered by many on the Macleay River." - from the Wingham Chronicle 16 Oct 1942 (nla.gov.au)