Peter Young

Major-General Peter George Francis Young, (15 July 1912 – 4 November 1976) was a senior British Army officer who served in the Second World War and later was General Officer Commanding Cyprus District from 1962 to 1964.

Military career Peter Young was born on 15 July 1912 and was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (OBLI) on 1 September 1932. He was posted to the 1st Battalion, OBLI (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.

During World War II Young was second-in-command of the 2nd Battalion, Ox and Bucks, then having returned to England and forming part of the 1st Airlanding Brigade of Major General Frederick Browning's 1st Airborne Division, at Bulford, Wiltshire, from June 1942 to February 1943. At the original ceasefire in 1964 Young drew a line on a map with a blunt green chinagraph pencil identifying the truce line between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities. It became known internationally as the Green Line. He was director of infantry at the Ministry of Defence from 1965 to 1967 and retired from the army in 1968. Young was chairman of the 43rd and 52nd Old Comrades Association from 1968.

Family Young married Patricia FitzGerald in 1949 and had two children, Susan Elizabeth (born 1951) and James Peter Gerald (born 1954). He lived in Pewsey, Wiltshire.