Lieutenant-Colonel Tony Arengo-Jones
1/4th Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Commanders at every level up to battalion will be required to pay attention to such tactical principles as the need to bring maximum, accurate fire on enemy positions from as many different directions as practicable; bold flanking and infiltration movements undertaken whenever the circumstances are propitious; reducing the risk of casualties by having as few men as possible moving in the attack at any one time, and the employment of deception to conceal the direction from which the final assault is launched

(Arengo-Jones, “An Exchange of Ideas,” Infantry, Sep-Oct 1966, 6)

Born on 17 August 1915 in Somerset, Gloucestershire, Anthony James Arengo Arengo-Jones was a graduate of Cheltenham College and rugby player. After attending Royal Military College, Sandhurst he took a commission with the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1936. He served at Dunkirk in command of an anti-tank company. He returned to France after the Normandy invasion as brigade major with the 160th Infantry Brigade.

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