Peter Young (British Army officer)

Peter Young
Born	(1912-07-15)July 15, 1912
Died	November 4, 1976(1976-11-04) (aged 64)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1932–1968
Rank	Major General
Commands held	16th (Staffords) Parachute Battalion 1st Ox and Bucks Light Infantry 44 Parachute Brigade TA in 1955 1st Brigade Royal Nigeria Regiment Cyprus District
Battles/wars	Second World War
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Major General Peter George Francis Young CB CBE (15 July 1912 – 4 November 1976) was a senior British Army officer who was General Officer Commanding Cyprus District from 1962 to 1964.

After Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Young was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1932 and was posted to the 1st Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the former 43rd Regiment of Foot). He served with the Royal West African Frontier Force in Nigeria from 1935 and then with the 2nd Ox and Bucks (the 52nd) in India from 1939. Young was second-in-command of the 2nd Ox and Bucks, 1st Airlanding Brigade at Bulford, Wiltshire from June 1942 to February 1943. He served with the 3rd Parachute Battalion during Operation Husky: the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 where he was taken prisoner of war. He was a POW in Oflag 1X AZ at Rotenburg in Hesse during 1943 and 1944 when having convinced his captors that he was suffering from deafness he was repatriated and he became a General Staff Officer Grade 2 (Airborne) at the War Office.