Young, Peter, son of Dallas Hales Wilkie Young (qv); b. 28 July 1915; adm. Jan. 1929 (G); left July 1930 and went to Monmouth Sch.; Trin. Coll. Oxf., matnc. 1934, BA MA 1943; commissioned Beds & Herts Regt 1939, wounded (Dunkirk) 1940; No. 3 Commando 1940-5, MC (Norway) Apr. 1942, DSO (Dieppe) Oct. 1942; CO No. 3 Commando 1943-4, Bar to DSO (Sicily) Oct. 1943, second Bar (Italy) Jan. 1944; served Normandy 1944, Arakan 1944-5; CO 1st Commando Bde 1945-6; Maj. Aug. 1950; CO 9th Regt Arab Legion 1953-6; Lieut.-Col. Feb. 1956, hon. Brigadier July 1959; Reader in Military History RMA Sandhurst 1959-69; FRHistS FSA 1960, FRGS 1968; gen. editor Military Memoirs series 1967; dep. editor Purnell's History of the First World War; author of many works on military history; m. 1950 Joan Duckworth; d. 13 Sept. 1988.
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Zerffi, Henry Gustavus Wentworth, son of Henry Charles Zerffi, of Maida Vale, London, by Lilian, fourth daughter of the Rev. William Henry Wentworth Atkins-Bowyer, Rector of Clapham, Surrey; b. July 12, 1881; adm. Sept. 27, 1895 (G); left July 1898; an artist; served in Great War I; Sergt. R.A.; severely wounded; d. Aug. 4, 1926.