Brian Young (Royal Navy officer)

Template:Infobox military person Captain Brian Gilmore Young, DSO (25 September 1930 – 24 December 2009) was a British Royal Navy officer, naval aviator and Falklands War 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 Template:HMS, the light carrier Template:HMS and the sloop Template:HMS.

Young learned to fly in the United States, serving from 1954 to 1958 with 803 and 804 Naval Air Squadrons, flying Hawker Sea Hawk jet fighters from the carriers Template:HMS, Template:HMS, Template:HMS and Template:HMS, and participating in ground attacks in Egypt during the Suez War.

Falklands War

Young was captain of the destroyer Template:HMS and commander of the ships detached to recover South Georgia, known as Operation Paraquet.