- SURNAME
Young
- FORENAME
Peter
- UNIT
3 Commando (6 Troop)
- RANK
T/Captain + Major
- NUMBER
77254
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross and 2 bars, Mention in Despatches
- PLACE
Dieppe 1942 (DSO) Norway 1941 (MC) Italy 1943 (2 bars to MC)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
born 28.7.1915
educated Monmouth School
educated Trinity College, Oxford
commissioned Beds and Herts Regiment 1937
WIA 1940 Dunkirk
3 Commando 1941-44
O.C. 1st Commando Brigade 1945
Staff College 1946
2 War Office Methods of Instruction Team 1947
Beds and Herts Regiment (company commander)
9th Regiment, Arab Legion (C.O.)
Joint Services Amphibious Warfare Centre (staff) 1950
Regular Commissions Board (staff)
retired 1959
Head of the Department of Military History, RMC Sandhurst
author
married Joan Duckworth
died 13.9.1988
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