Sir Julian Tolver Paget, 4th Baronet

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Julian Tolver Paget, 4th Baronet, (11 July 1921 – 25 September 2016) was a British army officer and military historian who was the author of many books. Early life He was born in London and was the eldest son of General Sir Bernard Paget. He was educated at Radley College, Oxfordshire and read medicine at Christ Church College, University of Oxford. Military career Paget was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in March 1940 and from August 1942 served with the 5th Battalion, Coldstream Guards, part of the Guards Armoured Division. He served in NW Europe during the Second World War, including in the battle for Normandy, in the Liberation of Brussels and in the attempt to reach the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem in September 1944. At the end of the War he was at Cuxhaven, northern Germany. His younger brother Lieutenant Tony Paget DSO served with the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 43rd) and was killed during the Battle of the Reichswald in March 1945. Following the Second World War he served in Palestine with 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards. He attended the Staff College, Camberley in 1950. He also served at the Pentagon, in Washington DC and in Aden. Paget was promoted to lieutenant colonel and commanded the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards in Kenya from 1960 to 1962, taking large parties of guardsmen up Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya and Kaiser Wilhelm's Peak. He commanded the Queen's Birthday Parade in June 1962, before being posted as the head of the security secretariat at Aden. In 1967 he published his account of the fighting Counter-Insurgency campaigning in both Britain and America. When he retired from the Army in 1969, Last Post Aden, 1964-7 described the campaign and withdrawal from the former British colony.