Yates,
Peter Mandall

Son of ... Yates, and ... Hatley.
From Doncaster.
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(03?).1914
Donacaster, Lincolnshire / Nottinghamshire
/ Yorkshire - West Riding
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2nd Lt.
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12.04.1933
[58824]
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Lt.
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12.04.1936
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WS/Capt.
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23.06.1940
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T/Maj.
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23.06.1940-(04.1941)
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late Cadet, St Peter's School Contingent,
Junior Division, Officer Training Corps
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12.04.1933
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commissioned,
Corps of Royal Engineers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
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24.08.1939
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mobilized
TA
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1939?
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1942?
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Officer
Commanding, 106th Army Troops Company RE (France, UK, Middle East)
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12.04.1943
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transferred,
Regular Army Reserve of Officers
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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
Kensington district, Greater London
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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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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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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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Yunnie,
Robert Park
"Bob"

Lived at Aberdeen.
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24.04.1909
Inverness district, Inverness, Scotland
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03.1961
Congo Republic (died as a mercenary)
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2nd Lt.
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25.05.1941 [201206]
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WS/Lt.
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02.03.1942 (reld
< 04.1946)
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T/Capt.
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10.10.1942-(04.1944)
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Hon. Capt.
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< 04.1946
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* On 12 June 1944 at the mouth of River Tenna,
Italy, then in enemy hands, Capt. Yunnie was landed from the sea to make
arrangements for the subsequent landing of a raiding force of armed vehicles.
On the night of 15/16 June the L.C.T. carrying this foce was successfully
signalled in from the shore by Capt. Yunnie. The landing craft broached to,
the vehicles could not be landed and the ship had to be abandoned. Capt.
Yunnie declined to be taken off by the escorting vessel and having volunteered
to remain on shore with a foot party, he operated for several days in the
immediate rear of the retreating enemy, causing considerable confusion. In the
course of a well-timed action he overpowered the German guard and the
Demolition Party responsible for the blowing up of a main road bridge which
was thus preserved for the use of our own pursuing forces.
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Insurance broker.
19.09.1939
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enlisted
& served in the ranks, Royal Army Service Corps (1st Cavalry Division)
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25.05.1941
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Officer
Cadet Training Unit, Cairo
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25.05.1941
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commissioned,
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) [emergency commission]
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11.1942
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served
Libyan Arab Force
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23.11.1942
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1945?
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No 1
Demolition Squadron, PPA ("Popski's Private
Army") (Western Desert [Tunisia & Algeria], Italy & Austria)
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Published: The cause and cure of disease (1950);
Warriors on wheels (1959; memoirs) [republished as: Fighting with Popski's
Private Army]
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