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Major General Peter George Francis Young, CB, CBE (15 July 1912 – 4 November 1976) was a senior British Army officer who served in the Second World War...

general Peter Young (British Army officer, born 1912) (1912–1976), British Army major general Pierce M. B. Young (1836–1896), Confederate States Army major...

Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, CVO, DSO, DFC & Bar (22 November 1914 – 19 June 1995) was a British Royal Air Force officer, flying ace, courtier...

Scotland Peter Young (British Army officer) (1912–1976), British general Peter Young (historian) (1915–1988), British World War II soldier Peter Young (priest)...

Kennedy (British Army officer, born 1878) (1878–1948), British general Sir John Kennedy (British Army officer, born 1893) (1893–1970), British general John...

the besieged army of General Charles Gordon, better known to the British public as "Chinese Gordon", at Khartoum. As a Royal Marine officer, he strictly...

general officer rank or the rank of brigadier (together now recognized as starred officers) in the British Army, Royal Marines, British Indian Army or other...

1927) was a British engineer, explorer, military officer and cartographer. Born in the Madras Presidency, he was a balloon observer as a young man, surveyed...

several years. But on October 19, 1781, the British Army's defeat at the Siege of Yorktown led the British to conclude that the war was unwinnable, forcing...

Colonel Sir Arthur Edwin Young KBE CMG CVO OStJ KPM (15 February 1907 – 20 January 1979) was a British police officer. He was Commissioner of Police of...

World War I, the King and his army retreated across the Principality of Albania. Peter died in 1921 aged 77. Peter was born in Belgrade on 11 July [O.S...

– 12 August 1930) was a British Army General. One of the few British survivors of the Battle of Isandlwana as a young officer, he also distinguished himself...

made a return flight to Oxford. Burke was also one of the earliest British Army officers to consider air power in depth. In 1911, whilst serving as a captain...

(born 1955), English author Rupert Thorneloe, MBE (1969–2009), British Army officer killed in action in Afghanistan Timothy Rupert Thorogood (born 1962)...

pupils of Eton College were born in the 20th century. Thomas Bevan (1900–1942), first-class cricketer and British Army officer Colin Cokayne-Frith (1900–1940)...

II) and David Hackworth (Korean War). During the Vietnam War, some army warrant officer pilots were offered a direct commission to 2nd or 1st Lieutenant...

mathematician Field Marshal Lord William Paulet GCB (1804–1893), British Army officer James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury (1807–1889), Secretary of State...

footballer Aretas William Young (1778–1835), British Army officer and colonial administrator of the early nineteenth century Arthur Young (disambiguation), several...

generals in the British Army since the Acts of Union 1707. The rank of general (or full general to distinguish it from the lower general officer ranks) is the...

state in East Asia that lasted from the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1912 until its annexation by the People's Republic of China in 1951. The Tibetan...