GB 0099 KCLMA Young H W - YOUNG, Maj Sir Hubert Winthrop (1885-1950)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Young H W

Titel

YOUNG, Maj Sir Hubert Winthrop (1885-1950)

Datum(s)

  • Created 1917-1918 (Vervaardig)

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Biografie

Born 1885; educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery, 1904; Lt, 1907; qualified as interpreter in French, 1907; transferred to 116 Mahratta Light Infantry, Indian Army, 1908; qualified as interpreter in Arabic, 1908; Capt, 1913; Adjutant, 1913-1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; service on North West Frontier, India, 1915; Assistant Political Officer, Mesopotamia, 1915-1917; Deputy Director Local Resources, 1917-1918; General Staff Officer 2, Hejaz operations, Arabia, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1918; President, Local Resources Board, Damascus, Syria, 1918; awarded DSO, 1919, for gallantry during an attack by Arab forces on Turkish positions at Mezerib, Syria, Sep 1918; Foreign Office, 1919-1921; Assistant Secretary, Middle East Department, Colonial Office, 1921-1927; awarded CMG, 1923; Colonial Secretary, Gibraltar, 1927-1929; Counsellor to High Commissioner for Iraq, 1929-1932; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Baghdad, Iraq, Oct-Nov 1932; Knighted, 1932; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nyasaland, 1932-1934; created KCMG, 1934; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Northern Rhodesia, 1934-1938; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Trinidad and Tobago, 1938-1942; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Assistant Secretary, Relief Department, 1943-1944; European Regional Office, UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1944-1945; Liberal Party Parliamentary Candidate for Harrow West, 1945, and Edge Hill, 1947; died 1950.

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GB 0099 KCLMA Young H W Created 1917-1918 Collection (fonds) 1 file

Born 1885; educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery, 1904; Lt, 1907; qualified as interpreter in French, 1907; transferred to 116 Mahratta Light Infantry, Indian Army, 1908; qualified as interpreter in Arabic, 1908; Capt, 1913; Adjutant, 1913-1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; service on North West Frontier, India, 1915; Assistant Political Officer, Mesopotamia, 1915-1917; Deputy Director Local Resources, 1917-1918; General Staff Officer 2, Hejaz operations, Arabia, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1918; President, Local Resources Board, Damascus, Syria, 1918; awarded DSO, 1919, for gallantry during an attack by Arab forces on Turkish positions at Mezerib, Syria, Sep 1918; Foreign Office, 1919-1921; Assistant Secretary, Middle East Department, Colonial Office, 1921-1927; awarded CMG, 1923; Colonial Secretary, Gibraltar, 1927-1929; Counsellor to High Commissioner for Iraq, 1929-1932; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Baghdad, Iraq, Oct-Nov 1932; Knighted, 1932; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nyasaland, 1932-1934; created KCMG, 1934; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Northern Rhodesia, 1934-1938; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Trinidad and Tobago, 1938-1942; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Assistant Secretary, Relief Department, 1943-1944; European Regional Office, UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1944-1945; Liberal Party Parliamentary Candidate for Harrow West, 1945, and Edge Hill, 1947; died 1950.

Copies made by the Centre from originals loaned by St Antony's College, Oxford in 1969.

Copies of papers relating to operations in the Hedjaz (Hejaz), Arabia, especially the provision of camels and equipment to Sherif Faisal ibn Hussein's Northern Arab Army, 1917-1918, including typescript note by Lt Col Pierce Charles Joyce, Officer Commanding Northern Hejaz Troops, entitled 'Proposed employment of camels put at the disposal of Sherif Faisal by General Allenby', 22 Jul 1918; typescript memorandum by Young to Sherif Faisal ibn Hussein on the deterioration in condition of British supplied camels, in use by the Arab Army, Aug 1918; typescript memorandum by Young detailing equipment to be supplied to the Arab Army, Aug 1918; typescript narrative by Young entitled '1000 miles on a camel. How I got two guns out of the Sherifian Army' [1918].

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Open subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
English and some Arabic.

Summary guide entry available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhmca/top.htm and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford University.

The papers of Lt Col Pierce Charles Joyce include material relating to the Hejaz operations, Arabia, 1916-1918 (Ref: Joyce). Young's papers relating to the Middle East, 1913-1932, are held at the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford University. Other papers can be found at Rhodes House Library, Oxford.

The independent Arab (John Murray, London, 1933); Some factors in Colonial Policy (Privately published, London, 1943); Far East relief requirements. Report of Working Party under the chairmanship of Sir Hubert Young (HMSO, London, 1945).

Decorations: KCMG, Kt, DSO
Jan 1999 Al-Hijaz Allenby , Edmund Henry Hynman , 1861-1936 , 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe , Field Marshal x Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe , 1st Viscount Arab Army Arabia Armed forces Desert warfare Faisal I , 1885-1933 , King of Iraq Gulf States Hedjaz Hejaz International conflicts International relations Joyce , Pierce Charles , d 1965 , Lieutenant Colonel Middle East Military engineering Military organizations Organizations Saudi Arabia State security War Warfare World War One (1914-1918) World wars (events) Wars (events)

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Copies made by the Centre from originals loaned by St Antony's College, Oxford in 1969.

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Copies of papers relating to operations in the Hedjaz (Hejaz), Arabia, especially the provision of camels and equipment to Sherif Faisal ibn Hussein's Northern Arab Army, 1917-1918, including typescript note by Lt Col Pierce Charles Joyce, Officer Commanding Northern Hejaz Troops, entitled 'Proposed employment of camels put at the disposal of Sherif Faisal by General Allenby', 22 Jul 1918; typescript memorandum by Young to Sherif Faisal ibn Hussein on the deterioration in condition of British supplied camels, in use by the Arab Army, Aug 1918; typescript memorandum by Young detailing equipment to be supplied to the Arab Army, Aug 1918; typescript narrative by Young entitled '1000 miles on a camel. How I got two guns out of the Sherifian Army' [1918].

Waardering, vernietiging en slectie

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Open subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Taal van het materiaal

  • Engels

Schrift van het materiaal

  • Latijn

Taal en schrift aantekeningen

English and some Arabic.

Fysieke eigenschappen en technische eisen

The papers of Lt Col Pierce Charles Joyce include material relating to the Hejaz operations, Arabia, 1916-1918 (Ref: Joyce). Young's papers relating to the Middle East, 1913-1932, are held at the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford University. Other papers can be found at Rhodes House Library, Oxford.

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Summary guide entry available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhmca/top.htm and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

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Decorations: KCMG, Kt, DSO

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Decorations: KCMG, Kt, DSO

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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

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  • Engels

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