John Young

John Young was born in London in 1956 and he has Irish roots on both the maternal and paternal sides of his family. He was educated in Blackheath and North-West London and has written for various publications - including Soldiers of the Queen: The Journal of the Victorian Military Society, in which he served as an officer of the society, before being elected as the Chairman of Anglo-Zulu War Research in 1991. The society was relaunched as the Anglo-Zulu War Royal Research Trust, in which John is the only officer of the Trust who is not a member of the Zulu Royal House. He is the author of They Fell Like Stones: The Battles and Casualties of the Zulu War, 1879 and Victoria's Harvest: The Irish Soldier in the Zulu War of 1879 (Helion, 2016) and is married with two adult sons.