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Yonge, Martin Godwin, son of Ernest Adams Yonge, of Hendon, sometime music master at the school and at Eton, and Margaret Mary, d. of James Thomas Godwin; b. 12 July 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (R); left Dec. 1938; Sgt Observer RAFVR; trained in S. Africa May to Dec. 1941; d. of cerebro-spinal meningitis on board ship to the Middle East 22 Dec. 1941.
Martin Godwin Yonge was born at Paddington, London on the 12th of July 1921 the only son of Ernest Adams Yonge, a music master at Westminster School, and Margaret Mary (nee Godwin) Yonge of 19, Shirehall Lane, Hendon in Middlesex. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from September 1934 to December 1938. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he trained as an Observer and rose to the rank of Sergeant.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial Panel 55.
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Sergeant 1255022; Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020. Updated by Bethany Duck, Archives Assistant, September 2022.
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The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1919 to Election 1989, Volume 4, compiled by F.E. Pagan and H.E. Pagan, Padstow, 1992.
Westminster School Second World War Memorial by John C. Hamblin, 2022.