Gavin David Young (24 April 1928 – 18 January 2001) was a journalist and travel writer.
His father, Gavin Young, was a lieutenant colonel in the Welsh Guards.
Daphne, his mother, was the daughter of Sir Charles Leolin Forestier-Walker, Bt, of Monmouthshire.
[3] Young spent two years with the Ralli Brothers shipping company in Basra in Iraq before living with the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
He had covered fifteen wars and revolutions throughout the world and worked for The Guardian and was a travel writer.