Prayoon Yuthasastrkosol | |
Native Name: | ประยูร ยุทธศาสตร์โกศล |
Native Name Lang: | th |
Honorific-Prefix: | Admiral of the Fleet |
Order: | Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand |
Primeminister: | Plaek Phibunsongkhram |
Term Start: | 21 March 1957 |
Term End: | 16 September 1957 |
Office1: | Minister of Culture |
Term Start1: | 2 August 1955 |
Term End1: | 16 September 1957 |
Primeminister1: | Plaek Phibunsongkhram |
Predecessor1: | Sunawinwiwat |
Successor1: | Pin Malakul |
Office2: | Minister of Cooperatives |
Term Start2: | 24 March 1952 |
Term End2: | 1 August 1955 |
Primeminister2: | Plaek Phibunsongkhram |
Office3: | Minister of Agriculture |
Term Start3: | 6 December 1951 |
Term End3: | 23 March 1952 |
Successor3: | Chamnanarthayutha |
Primeminister3: | Plaek Phibunsongkhram |
Office4: | Commander in Chief of the Royal Thai Navy |
Successor4: | Chamnanarthayutha |
Term Start4: | 1 December 1951 |
Term End4: | 19 September 1957 |
Birth Date: | 1893 9, df=y |
Birth Place: | Siam |
Death Place: | Thailand |
Spouse: | Prayoon Jansawad |
Alma Mater: | Royal Thai Naval Academy |
Branch: | Royal Thai Navy |
Rank: | General Admiral of the Fleet 15px Air Chief Marshal[1] |
Serviceyears: | 1951-1957 |
Luang Yuthasastr Kosol (Thai: หลวงยุทธศาสตร์โกศล, personal name Prayoon Yuthasastrkosol, 19 October 1893 – 11 December 1975) was a Commander of the Royal Thai Navy.[2]
Prayoon joined the Royal Thai Naval Academy on 18 April 1919, and continued his studies at Thai Naval War College in 1932, where his fraternity brothers dubbed him "The professor", a nickname he kept throughout his navy career. Prayoon served in the Royal Thai Navy from 1932 to his retirement in 1957 in many positions:
Among several official visits, Luang Yuthasastr Kosol represented Thailand in Spain, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, USA, Taiwan and Hong Kong. In 1953, Luang Yuthasastr Kosol led the Naval Parade for the Queen’s Coronation held in the United Kingdom.
During his last years of service, Prayoon undertook several agricultural projects such as the creation of a secured and self-managed market by parboiled rice farmers, including increased marketing opportunities and refrigeration as well as rural reconstruction of liquid gas propane, and rubber industry. An oil refinery in cooperation with American Petroleum Export Company through the flotation of a bond issue to fund the project and the initiation of the deep-sea port in Si Racha District.