Elton Younger

Major-General Allan Elton Younger DSO OBE (Tony Younger, 4 May 1919 – 5 July 2010) was a British soldier and author, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers from 1974 to 1979. Background Younger's family has a long military tradition. His father was Brigadier Arthur Allan Shakespear Younger, and his grandfather was Colonel John Younger, Royal Artillery. He was a maternal first cousin of Dad’s army actor, John Le Mesurier Halliley. Younger belonged to a branch of the Younger Brewery family of Edinburgh, founded by his 3x great-grandfather William Younger (1733-1769). Education He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and Christ's College, Cambridge. 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, then later in the Korean War.