Peter Acland

Brigadier Peter Bevil Edward Acland OBE MC TD JP DL (9 July 1902 – 9 January 1993[1]) was a British Army officer.

[7] During the Second World War, he served in the Sudan Defence Force,[6] was wounded and honoured with a Military Cross in 1941.

[4] Acland was then transferred to the Aegean Islands, where he was wounded and mentioned in despatches, receiving the Greek War Cross.

[4] After the war, he was chief administrator first of the Dodecanese, then of the Cyrenaica until 1946,[9] for which he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the King's Birthday Honours.

[11] Acland was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1947,[12] commanding the 296 Field Regiment, Royal Devon Yeomanry the next four years until 1951, when he was granted the rank of honorary brigadier.