Major General Peter George Francis Young, CB, CBE (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.

[2] 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.

[3] 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.

[3] Young commanded the 16th (Staffords) Parachute Battalion in India and also attended the Staff College, Quetta in 1946.

[3] He was a General Staff Officer Grade 1 in Operations and Training, Allied Land Forces Central Europe between 1951 and 1952.