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Arthur Peters (Royal Navy officer)

Arthur Peters (Royal Navy officer)

Royal Navy Admiral (1888-1979)

Admiral Sir Arthur Malcolm Peters KCB DSC (1 June 1888 – 23 September 1979) was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary.

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Peters was born in Kensington, the only surviving son of Maj-Gen. William Henry Brooke Peters and Hon. Rosalinda Catherine Sophia Clifford-Butler, daughter of James Fitzwalter Clifford-Butler, 15th/25th Baron Dunboyne.[1]

Educated at Stubbington House School in Fareham and Britannia Royal Naval College,[2] Peters joined the Royal Navy in 1904.[3] He served in World War I and took part in the Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1914, the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915 and the Battle of Jutland in 1916.[3] He was appointed Commander of the training ship HMS Erebus in 1927, Commander of the sloop HMS Delphinium in 1930[4] and then Senior Naval Officer, West Coast of Africa before given command of the cruiser HMS Southampton in 1936.[3]

He served in World War II as Commodore-in-Charge, of Naval Establishments, Hong Kong from 1939 and as Naval Secretary from 1941 before becoming Flag Officer, West Africa in 1943 and retiring in 1945.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Who was who. A. & C. Black. 1971. p. 621. ISBN 9780312877460.
  2. [2]
    Peters, Sir Arthur Malcolm, Admiral, 1888-1979 National Maritime Museum
  3. [3]
    Sir Arthur Malcolm Peters Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  4. [4]
    Arthur Peters Unit Histories
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