Yui Mitsue
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Yui Mitsue | |
|---|---|
| 1860 – 1940 | |
 Yui Mitsue |
|
| Place of birth | Tosa Province, Japan |
| Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
| Rank | General |
| Commands | Imperial Japanese Army |
| Battles/wars | First Sino-Japanese War Boxer Rebellion Russo-Japanese War World War I |
Mitsue Yui (由比光衛 Yui Mitsue ?) (1860-1940) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War.
Born in the Tosa domain on Shikoku island (present day Kochi prefecture), Yui entered Army Staff College only a year before graduating from the Imperial Japanese Military Academy in 1882. He was sent as a military attache to Great Britain from 1896-1900.
Serving as a staff officer during the First Sino-Japanese War and the Boxer Rebellion, Yui developed a reputation as a competent officer.
At the start of the Russo-Japanese War, Yui (now a colonel) was assigned to the Japanese Second Army as a staff officer under General Yasukata Oku.
After promotion to major general in 1907, Yui continued to serve under General Oku following the war as chief of the Army General Staff's Operations Section, serving until his promotion to lieutenant general and promotion to commandant of the Army Staff College in 1914.
Remaining in this post through most of Japan's involvement during World War I, Yui was granted his first battlefield command leading the 15th Infantry and Guards Divisions before becoming Chief of Staff of the of the Siberian Expeditionary Army in 1918.
The following year, Yui become a general in command of Japanese garrison at Tsingtao from 1919 until 1922.
Resigning from active duty in 1923, Yui lived in retirement until his death in 1940.
[edit] Reference
- Dupuy, Trevor N. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1992. ISBN 0-7858-0437-4
