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Peter Leng

British Army general

Summary

British Army general

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	General
name	Sir Peter Leng
honorific_suffix
birth_date
death_date
placeofburial_coordinates
allegiance	United Kingdom United Kingdom
branch	[[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg	23px]] British Army
serviceyears	1944–1981
servicenumber	307865
rank	General
unit	Scots Guards
Royal Anglian Regiment
commands	3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment
24th Airmobile Brigade
1st (British) Corps
battles	World War II
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Royal Anglian Regiment 24th Airmobile Brigade 1st (British) Corps Operation Banner

[[File:Order of the Bath UK ribbon.svg|35 px]] Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
[[File:Order of the British Empire (Military) Ribbon.svg|35 px]] Member of the Order of the British Empire
[[File:Military cross BAR.svg|35 px]] Military Cross}} General Sir Peter John Hall Leng, (9 May 1925 – 11 February 2009) was a British Army General and Master-General of the Ordnance (1981–1983) & Counter Terrorism Expert in Northern Ireland.

Military service

Leng was born in 1925 in Sunderland and went to Bradfield College, Berkshire. He was commissioned into the Scots Guards in 1944. He was awarded a Military Cross in April 1945 for his actions in Visselhövede in Germany. Leng, as platoon officer, led forward a section and captured over 60 German prisoners. He was then wounded in May during the advance on Hamburg.

After the war he was appointed Military Assistant to the Chief of Defence Staff, Lord Mountbatten of Burma. He returned to the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards as its second in command in 1965, and was transferred to the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964 as Commanding Officer of the 3rd battalion of the Regiment in Berlin within the British Army of the Rhine. His battalion later moved to Aden where the security situation was deteriorating. After promotion to the rank of brigadier, he commanded the 24th Airmobile Brigade. He moved to the Ministry of Defence in 1971 as deputy military secretary, and was appointed to command of the British Army forces in Northern Ireland in 1973. When he left, bombings and other violence had dropped to a fifth of the level of when he arrived.

In 1975 he became Director of Military Operations at the Ministry of Defence and in 1978 he was asked to command the 1st (British) Corps in Germany.

Personal life

He first married Virginia Rosemary Pearson, dissolved in 1981. He then remarried to Flavia Tower, daughter of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Browning and novelist Daphne de Maurier. His second wife survives him along with several children from his first marriage.

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20100524222730/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5753667.ece Obituary: Sir Peter Leng] The Times, 18 February 2009
{{London Gazette. (7 April 1944)
{{London Gazette. (21 August 1945)

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