ENGINEERING HERITAGE
Both sides of the Young and Holiday family have been involved in engineering and aviation for many years.
Graham AC Young worked for Concorde in Bristol for the duration of the project as part of BAC Bristol. Graham AC Young was proud to work for BAC and his son Barry Young can recall being taken to see the first inaugural test flight from Filton, Bristol. Many years later Barry Young would fly on Concorde with a sense of pride that his father worked for Aerospace Bristol.
Pictured below, the Concorde Factory Bristol.
Graham AC Young’s Concorde BAC Fairford pass
Pictured below, Concord's inaugural test flight from Filton, Bristol.
The other grandfather LAC William Holiday was a Royal Airforce Leading Aircraftman in 222 (Natal) Squadron, and worked in a crack team at Coolham Airfield, a secret D-Day fighter station for Supermarine Spitfires and P-51 Mustangs. Many pilots from the F-Day fighter station were already heavily decorated heroes of the Battle of Britain.
Pictured below fourth from top left in the polo neck, LAC William Holiday, Royal Airforce Leading Aircraftman 222 (Natal) Squadron taken in 1944 from Coolham Airfield secret D-Day fighter station.
LAC William Holiday service and release book
LAC William Holiday 222 (Natal) Squadron Patch
LAC William Holiday service and release book
LAC William Holiday service and release book
Pictured below is King George V memorial card verse
Pictured below is the crew of B-26 Marauder Flounder Gus - the American connection at Coolham Airfield.
Pictured below, 222 (Natal) Squadron at Coolham Airfield
