Elton Younger

He went on to become the Senior Army Member of the Directing Staff at the Royal College of Defence Studies from 1972 to 1975 and Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers between 1974 and 1979.

From 1954 to 1957, he taught at Sandhurst, and from 1960 to 1962 commanded 36 Corps Engineer Regiment in the UK and Kenya.

He served in Burma, 1946–1947, Malaya, 1948, and Korea, 1950–1951. At the start of the Korean War, Younger was given command of 55 Field Squadron, Royal Engineers.

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.

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.

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.

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).