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Major General Allan Elton Younger, DSO, OBE, (Tony Younger) (born 4 May 1919) is a British soldier and author. DSO medal The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other Commonwealth countries, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat. ...
Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority...
May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ...
Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ...
Modern soldiers. ...
An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ...
Background
Younger's family has a long military tradition. His grandfather was Colonel John Younger, Royal Artillery. RGA redirects here. ...
Education He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Gresham’s School is an independent boarding school at Holt in North Norfolk, England, founded in the year 1555, a member of the HMC. // Big School (1903) The Senior School of Greshams was established at Holt by Sir John Gresham in 1555, during the reign of Queen Mary I...
Holt is a market town in the county of Norfolk, England. ...
The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. ...
Career He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1939 and saw active service in World War II, taking part in the Dunkirk evacuation, the Normandy Landings, and the Burma campaign, then later in the Korean War. The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army. ...
1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ...
Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
For other uses of Dunkirk or Dunkerque, see Dunkirk (disambiguation). ...
The Battle of Normandy was fought in 1944 between the German forces occupying Western Europe and the invading Allies. ...
The Burma Campaign was a campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II. It was fought primarily between Commonwealth, Chinese and American forces against the Empire of Japan. ...
Combatants United Nations: Republic of Korea, Australia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Medical staff: Denmark, Australia, Italy, Norway, Sweden Communist states: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Peoples Republic of China, Soviet Union Commanders...
In 1942, he took part in trials on the Scottish island of Gruinard to test the potential of anthrax as a weapon. He later said that its lethality compared with chemical weapons was like the difference between TNT and a nuclear bomb. ...
// TNT may refer to: Trinitrotoluene, the chemical explosive usually known as TNT Alkyl nitrites, TNT is a UK brand for this medicinal and recreational Turner Network Television, cable television network TNT N.V., Dutch international transport and logistics corporation, and its divisions TNT Express, Global Express Delivery Services TNT Logistics...
At the start of the Korean War, Younger was given command of 55 Field Squadron, Royal Engineers. The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army. ...
He went on to become the Senior Army Member of the Directing Staff at the Royal College of Defence Studies. The Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) is an internationally-renowned institution and component of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. ...
Autobiography - Blowing Our Bridges: A Memoir from Dunkirk to Korea via Normandy (Leo Cooper Ltd, 2004) ISBN 1844150518
Honours Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority...
For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ...
DSO medal The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other Commonwealth countries, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat. ...
The Silver Star is the fourth highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States Armed Forces. ...
1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army. ...
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