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1939-1945

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Yates, A.G.
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Young, P.

A.G. Yates to P. Young

Yates,
Arthur George
A.G. Yates

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Gnr.	?
2nd Lt.	04.06.1938
WS/Lt.	01.03.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

			late Cadet, Bedford School Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
			served in the ranks, H.A.C., Artillery
04.06.1938			commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army
04.06.1938	-	(01.1939)	418th (Bedfordshire) Battery, 105th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Army Field Regiment RA (Biggleswade)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
(1939)	-	(1940)	"C" Battery, 52nd Heavy Regiment RA

Young,
Charles William Marr
C.W.M. Young

16.02.1915
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died before 02.1967

2nd Lt.	31.01.1935 [64553]
Lt.	31.01.1938
A/Capt.	03.09.1939-16.10.1939, 17.09.1940-02.11.1940
T/Capt.	03.11.1940-30.01.1943
Capt.	31.01.1943
A/Maj.	13.11.1945-27.12.1945, 14.01.1946-01.03.1946
T/Maj.	02.03.1946-30.01.1948
Maj.	31.01.1948
T/Lt.Col.	13.12.1947-19.04.1954
Lt.Col.	12.04.1955 (retd 29.01.1958)

OBE

01.06.1953

Pakistan

NW Frontier of India 37-39 Medal & Clasp

AMIEE

31.01.1935			commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals
(01.1937)			served at Aldershot
(01.1939)			served in India
			?
			served in Pakistan
08.05.1955	-	(02.1957)	Chief Signals Officer, General Headquarters East Africa

Young,
John Frederick
J.F. Young

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Lt.	30.10.1935
Capt.	01.11.1938
Maj.	01.04.1939
Hon. Lt.Col.	?

DSO

			late Flying Officer, RAF
30.10.1935			commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army (52nd (London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade)
24.08.1939			mobilized TA
			Commanding Officer, 119th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment

Young,
Peter
P. Young

Son of Dallas H.W. Young, MBE, and Irene Barbara Lushington Mellor.
Married (1950) Joan Duckworth; no children.

28.07.1915
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13.09.1988
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire

2nd Lt.	26.08.1937 [77254]
Lt.	26.08.1940
A/Capt.	16.09.1940-15.12.1940
T/Capt.	16.12.1940-25.06.1942
WS/Capt.	26.06.1942
Capt.	26.08.1945
A/Maj.	05.03.1942-25.04.1942, 18.05.1942-25.06.1942
T/Maj.	26.06.1942-31.10.1943
WS/Maj.	01.11.1943
Maj.	?
A/Lt.Col.	01.08.1943-31.10.1943
T/Lt.Col.	01.11.1943-05.04.1945
WS/Lt.Col.	06.04.1945-18.11.1948 (Employed List (1))
Lt.Col.	28.02.1956 (retd 17.07.1959)
A/Col.	06.10.1945-05.04.1945
T/Col.	06.04.1945-06.03.1946
A/Brig.	19.06.1945-18.12.1945
T/Brig.	19.12.1945-04.01.1946
Hon. Brig.	17.07.1959

DSO	02.10.1942	Dieppe
MC	03.04.1942	Vaagsö & Maaloy
MC	21.10.1943	Sicily
MC	13.01.1944	Italy

Order of El Istiqlal (Jordan) 3rd Class, 1954.

Education: Monmouth School; Trinity College, Oxford (MA); Staff College, Camberley (psc)

26.08.1937			commissioned, General List - University Candidates
28.01.1939	-	1940	commissioned, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (served BEF Dunkirk (wounded))
1940	-	1942	No. 3 Commando (raids on Guernsey, 1940; Lofoten and Vaagso, 1941, Dieppe, 1942, Sicily and Italy, 1943)
05.03.1942	-	25.04.1942	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Combined Operations HQ
1942	-	1943	Second-in-Command, No. 3 Commando
1943	-	1945	Commanding Officer, No. 3 Commando (Normandy, 1944; Arakan, 1944-45)
1945	-	1946	Commander, 1st Commando Brigade
09.11.1951	-	08.03.1953	General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), GHQ Middle East Land forces
1953	-	1956	Commanded 9th Regiment Arab Legion
03.07.1956	-	29.09.1956	General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), School of Amphibious Warfare

Reader in Military History, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, 1959-69. General Editor, Military Memoirs series, 1967-; Editor, Purnell's History of First World War, 1970-72; Editor in Chief, Orbis' World War II, 1972-74; TV Consultant: Churchill and the Generals, 1980; 1798, The Year of the French, 1981; By The Sword Divided, 1st series 1983 (Military Consultant), 2nd series 1984 (Historical Adviser). Vice-President: Commando Association; Naseby Preservation Society; Military Historical Society; Chairman, Cheriton 1644 Association. FSA 1960; FRGS 1968.
Published: Bedouin Command, 1956; Storm from the Sea, 1958; The Great Civil War (with late LtCol Alfred H. Burne, DSO), 1959; Cromwell, 1962; Hastings to Culloden (with John Adair), 1964; World War 1939-45, 1966; Edgehill, 1642: The Campaign and the Battle, 1967; The British Army, 1642-1970, 1967; The Israeli Campaign, 1967, 1967; (ed) Decisive Battles of the Second World War, 1967; Charge (with LtCol J. P. Lawford), 1967; (jt editor) The Civil War: Richard Atkyns and John Gwyn, 1967; Oliver Cromwell, 1968; Commando, 1969; Cropredy Bridge, 1644 (with Margaret Toynbee), 1970; Marston Moor, 1644, 1970; (ed. with LtCol J. P. Lawford) History of the British Army, 1970; Chasseurs of the Guard, 1971; The Arab Legion, 1971; George Washington's Army, 1972; (ed) John Cruso, Militarie Instructions for the Cavall'rie, 1972; Blücher's Army, 1973; Armies of the English Civil War, 1973; (with LtCol J. P. Lawford) Wellington's Masterpiece, 1973; (ed and contrib.) The War Game, 1973; (ed and contrib.) The Machinery of War, 1973; (with R. Holmes) The English Civil War, 1974; Atlas of the Second World War, 1974; (with M. Toynbee) Strangers in Oxford, 1974; (with W. Emberton) The Cavalier Army, 1974; (ed with Brig. M. Calvert) A Dictionary of Battles: 1816-1976, 1977; 1815-1915, 1977; 1715-1815, 1978; (with W. Emberton) Sieges of the Great Civil War, 1642-1646, 1978; Civil War England, 1981; DDay, 1981; The Fighting Man, 1981; Naseby 1645: the campaign and the battle, 1985; (contrib.) Napoleon's Marshals, 1987; numerous articles in Army Historical Research Journal and Chambers's Encyclopædia.

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