Young,
Peter

Son of Dallas H.W. Young, MBE, and Irene
Barbara Lushington Mellor.
Married (1950) Joan Duckworth; no children.
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28.07.1915
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13.09.1988
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
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2nd Lt.
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26.08.1937
[77254]
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Lt.
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26.08.1940
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A/Capt.
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16.09.1940-15.12.1940
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T/Capt.
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16.12.1940-25.06.1942
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WS/Capt.
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26.06.1942
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Capt.
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26.08.1945
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A/Maj.
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05.03.1942-25.04.1942,
18.05.1942-25.06.1942
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T/Maj.
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26.06.1942-31.10.1943
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WS/Maj.
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01.11.1943
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Maj.
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?
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A/Lt.Col.
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01.08.1943-31.10.1943
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T/Lt.Col.
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01.11.1943-05.04.1945
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WS/Lt.Col.
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06.04.1945-18.11.1948
(Employed List (1))
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Lt.Col.
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28.02.1956 (retd
17.07.1959)
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A/Col.
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06.10.1945-05.04.1945
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T/Col.
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06.04.1945-06.03.1946
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A/Brig.
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19.06.1945-18.12.1945
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T/Brig.
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19.12.1945-04.01.1946
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Hon. Brig.
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17.07.1959
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DSO
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02.10.1942
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Dieppe
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MC
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03.04.1942
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Vaagsö
& Maaloy
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MC
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21.10.1943
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Sicily
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MC
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13.01.1944
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Italy
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Order of El Istiqlal (Jordan) 3rd Class, 1954.
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Education: Monmouth School; Trinity College, Oxford
(MA);
Staff College, Camberley (psc)
26.08.1937
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commissioned, General
List - University Candidates
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28.01.1939
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1940
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commissioned,
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (served
BEF Dunkirk (wounded))
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1940
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1942
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No.
3 Commando (raids on Guernsey,
1940; Lofoten and Vaagso, 1941, Dieppe, 1942, Sicily and Italy, 1943)
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05.03.1942
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25.04.1942
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General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), Combined Operations HQ
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1942
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1943
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Second-in-Command,
No. 3 Commando
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1943
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1945
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Commanding
Officer, No. 3 Commando (Normandy,
1944; Arakan, 1944-45)
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1945
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1946
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Commander,
1st Commando Brigade
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09.11.1951
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08.03.1953
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General
Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), GHQ Middle East Land forces
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1953
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1956
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Commanded
9th Regiment Arab Legion
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03.07.1956
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29.09.1956
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General
Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), School of Amphibious Warfare
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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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