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  • Dinghy Young
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  • Squadron Leader Henry Melvin "Dinghy" Young, DFC & Bar (20 May 1915 – 17 May 1943) was a Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Bomber Command pilot. Young was born in London to Henry George Melvin Young, a British solicitor, and Fannie Rowan Young. He was educated at Amesbury School in Hindhead, Westminster School class of 1933, Kent School in Kent, Connecticut class of 1934, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he was part of the winning crew of the 1938 Boat Race.
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  • 1938
Birth Date
  • 1915
death place
  • Dutch Coast
Nickname
  • Dinghy
Name
  • Henry Melvin Young
Birth Place
  • London, England
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death date
  • 1943
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  • Squadron Leader Henry Melvin "Dinghy" Young, DFC & Bar (20 May 1915 – 17 May 1943) was a Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Bomber Command pilot. Young was born in London to Henry George Melvin Young, a British solicitor, and Fannie Rowan Young. He was educated at Amesbury School in Hindhead, Westminster School class of 1933, Kent School in Kent, Connecticut class of 1934, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he was part of the winning crew of the 1938 Boat Race. Though going normally by the name Melvin, he acquired the nickname "Dinghy" after being shot down over the sea twice and surviving in inflatable dinghies.