YOUNG, George

YOUNG, George - 77, Queensland, passed away March 9, 2002, after a battle with cancer for many years. George was born in 1924, in Eastcote, Middlesex, England, the son of Philip J. and Beatrice (Gill) Young. In 1938, he joined Central London Electricity to begin learning electrical engineering, but in 1940, when an enemy bomb exploded behind his grandmother's house, which was his birthplace, killing a horse and severely damaging the old family home, he immediately added two years to his actual age and volunteered for war service in the Royal Navy. After a few weeks of basic training, he spent several months in a Naval Infantry Battalion near Portsmouth, with lots of time defending Horsey Island, which was bombed in order to take out the radar and R/T sites. In 1941, he was sent to destroyers and spent over two years on loan to the Royal Canadian Navy. After lengthy service on Montgomery and Georgetown, he went down to Boston and joined the frigate Hargood, returning again across the ocean to participate in the invasion of Normandy and many following actions. He spent several stays in hospital recovering from injuries and after four months leave, spent the remainder of his naval service working on research with the Naval Police Department. He then returned to Canada, arriving in Halifax by train from New York on the evening of the last day of 1946. He then became an officer with the Canadian Mercantile Marine, on ships serving the South American and West Indies trades routes. During and after the Korean emergency, he again served as an officer in the Royal Canadian Navy. In 1956, George went on the retired list of R.C.N.R. officers and also with his small family, bought a large old house in Queensland, landscaped it and made many changes to the building and settled there for their lifetime home and enjoyed every year of it. At this time, he made a start to his business world, which moved him to spend many years in the fields of construction and engineering management and he supervised the construction of many large buildings and military projects along with the installation of Water and Sanitary installations throughout Nova Scotia. He retired from this practice in 1981. During the previous seven years, he had written and published six books very successfully so he decided to write a few more as a hobby. They too were a great success and two of them were made into film documentaries one in Plymouth, England, called "Who Killed Surcouf" and one in the United States titled "Oak Island Treasure". Some of his other books are "Bluenose Capers", "Over Mulled Rum", "Ghosts in Nova Scotia", "Bottoms Up", "The Short Triangle" and "Ancient Peoples and Modern Ghosts". In recent years George had become internationally known for his research and investigations in the study of the ancient Celtic writing known as OGHAM. Many stones bearing this writing have been found in Ireland, Scotland, England, Spain, France, the Middle East, Canada and the United States. Although a lot of his naval writings have been used with his consent by other authors, the British authors Lionel and Patricia Fanthrope have had several of their recent books with a lot of information based on George's works, with his permission to do so, on his theories and thoughts on the paranormal. One such book is called "The Worlds Most Mysterious People". A magnificent book called "The Oak Island Mystery" gives great credence to his research on the Oak Island mystery. In "The World's Most Mysterious Places" we read of two very famous OGHAM finds by George, one in England and one in Colorado. Both at least two thousand years old, they are published by Hounslow Press in Canada, United Kingdom, United States and Australia. He is also the one who discovered the secrets of the famous French painter, Poussin, who bragged around 1650, that he could write messages into his paintings and that unless one knew the secret no one in the centuries to come would ever be able to solve it. He simply used Celtic OGHAM in painting the fingers, which he translated into Latin instead of the more common ancient Gaelic. Of the 17 paintings, George investigated 11 using OGHAM which had disappeared from use around 500 A.D. Besides his parents, George was predeceased by his sister, Betty (Les Bower) (Shelburne); granddaughter, Crissy Flecknell (Wolfville). Surviving are his loving wife of nearly 60 years, Janette; son, Ian (Pat), Shubenacadie; daughter, Valerie (Bob Flecknell), New Minas; four grandchildren; a great many nieces and nephews and yes, three great-grandchildren, who, as George himself would have said, are there to look after the spare change. The body is being cremated privately, but a family gathering will be held at a later date. As George has said, he was not a believer in any religion, although he was a very firm believer in God. A special thanks to Dr. Jim MacLean and staff of the Hubbards Medical Centre. Also a special thanks to the girls from Home Care. Condolences may be sent to the family at: www.rawalker.ca.