208544 Flt.Sgt. William Lewis Johnston Young Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 106 Squadron. from:Whitehouse, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. (d.3rd May 1942) Flt.Sgt W. Lewis Young was my uncle, with formal photograph attached, who was based at Coningsby with 106 Squadron until he was killed in action on 3rd May 1942. His photograph album is available to view online.
The photographs are in the sequence in which Lewis compiled the album. They are ordered, but not chronologically, and contain mainly pictures of RAF colleagues and of family. From the number of pictures of Exton Hall, I guess that it was a training centre with happy associations, as well as being very impressive to a young man from the Northern Ireland countryside.
I have no information on any of the other airmen in the pictures.
One of Lewis’s uncles was killed at Dunkirk. His stepfather was a padre in the Black Watch in North Africa and Burma; and his brother, my father, was a tank commander in the North Irish Horse in North Africa and Italy (including Monte Casino). His sister later joined the WRVS in London. And, remember, there was no conscription in Northern Ireland.
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