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  • Peter Young (historian)
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  • Brigadier Peter Young, DSO, MC & 2 bars (28 July 1915 – 13 September 1988) was a British Second World War soldier who served in the commandos, eventually commanding a brigade. Subsequently he went onto command a regiment of the Arab Legion before leaving the Army to become a lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. In later life he founded The Sealed Knot, and became a well-known military historian and author.
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serviceyears
  • 1937
Birth Date
  • 1915-07-28
Commands
  • 3
  • 9
death place
  • Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Name
  • Peter Young
Birth Place
  • Kensington, London
Awards
death date
  • 1988-09-13
Rank
laterwork
  • Historian
servicenumber
  • 77254
abstract
  • Brigadier Peter Young, DSO, MC & 2 bars (28 July 1915 – 13 September 1988) was a British Second World War soldier who served in the commandos, eventually commanding a brigade. Subsequently he went onto command a regiment of the Arab Legion before leaving the Army to become a lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. In later life he founded The Sealed Knot, and became a well-known military historian and author.