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Brigadier Peter Young DSO, MC & Two 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 on to 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. ==Early life== Born in London to Dallas Hales Wilkie Young and his wife, Irene Barbara Lushington Mellor,〔Birth registered in Kensington Registration District in the third quarter of 1915. Parents' marriage registered in Kensington Registration District in the third quarter of 1914.〕 Young attended Monmouth School and subsequently read for a degree in Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford. Having joined the Territorial Army while at Oxford, Young was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1938 but this was converted (and backdated to 1937) to a permanent commission in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment in January 1939. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Young (historian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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