YOUNG, Ivan Sinclair (1889-1966) Ivan Sinclair Young was born on 7 July 1889. He was one of three children and the only son of John Young (1855-1917) and Louisa nee Sinclair, of
Yerholm, Nhill. He was enrolled at the College as a boarder in 1905 until 1906. In 1906 he was amember of the 1st Cricket XI.
Pegasus noted that he was at Roseworthy Agricultural College, Adelaide in 1909. He graduated from Roseworthy in 1911 with first class honours in surveying and dairying.
During World War I he enlisted with 24th Depot Battalion (AIF) on 9 July 1915. He then joined 1st Armoured Car Section, Battery on 16 March 1916 and embarked on
HMAT A13 Katunga on 23 June 1916 from Adelaide with the Armoured Car Section, attached to 3rd Light Horse Regiment.
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Ivan Young (Cricket 1906).
Ivan Young played an active role in the early development of armoured vehicles during World War I. He offered a Daimler car for development as an armoured vehicle in on 17 August 1915 and this became the first armoured vehicle completed on the 7 February 1916. It was closely followed by a second armoured vehicle on a Mercedes chassis. After testing both vehicles were presented to Senator Pearce at Victoria Barracks, Melbourne on 28 April 1916. They were later used in the Middle East. Ivan worked on the original conversion of vehicles to armoured cars.
Ivan transferred to the 3rd Military School of Aeronautics at Abbassia on 10 March 1917, then to the School of Aerial Gunnery, 5th Wing, 67 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), on 25 May 1917. He was promoted 2nd Lieutenant on 13 June 1917 and classified as an Observer on 25 July. Due to the ill-health of his father, Ivan returned to Australia on
HMAT A42 Boorara, embarking on 23 August 1917. He was discharged on 22 October 1917 and subsequently took over the operation of his father's business, Young Brothers in Nhill. Ivan was later appointed to the 3rd military District Reserve of Officers remaing on the lists until the 1940s.
An entry in
Early Pioneer Families of Victoria and Riverina briefly described him:
'born Nhill, Vic 7th July 1889. Educated at Geelong College. Stock and station agent at Nhill. Married Nancie, daughter of A B and Margaret (nee Keys) Chilshom of Lerida, Goulburn, NSW.' They had four childre
Ivan married Nancy Chisholm in Sydney on 20 March 1918. In 1936 he retired from Young Brothers' and acquired a farm near Trawool, Victoria. He died at Kew on 12 July 1966.
His sons, John Chisholm Young (1919-2006) and James Arthur Chisholm, also boarded at College.
Sources: Based on an edited extract from Geelong Collegians at the Great War compiled by James Affleck. p342 (citing The Pegasus; National Archives); Pegasus April 1909 p34; Pioneers of Australian Armour in the Great War by David a Finlayson and Michael K Cecil. Newport: Big Sky Publishing, 1915 pp143-149 Early Pioneer Families of Victoria and Riverina by Alexander Henderson. Melbourne: McCarron, Bird & Co, 1936. p372; .