Captain Peter Carpenter DSO, MC* (6 December 1891 – 21 March 1971) was a Welsh fighter ace in World War I credited with 24 victories.

Carpenter attended the National School in Grange Town, Cardiff, until age 14.

At age 17, he joined Spillers & Baker Company as a clerk; around 1910, he became a representative for them at their Stockport office.

[2] He joined the Public Schools Royal Fusiliers in 1915 and was assigned to 24 Training Battalion as an instructor.

From there, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps,[2][3] being appointed a probationary temporary second lieutenant on 17 March 1917.

[2] On 20 September, he dove on four Albatros D.Vs near Ypres, Belgium, fired 30 rounds at one, and drove it down out of the fight.

[2] On 30 March 1918 his flight, consisting of himself, Harold Ross Eycott-Martin and Alan Jerrard, was involved in the combat that resulted in the Victoria Cross award to Jerrard; Carpenter claiming one of the six Albatros fighters claimed destroyed in this fight (although Austro-Hungarian records indicate three aircraft were only damaged).

Carpenter founded a shipping company after the war, but it fell victim to the Great Depression, and he took a position as general manager at the London office of the Metropolitan Life Company of New York, later taken over by Legal & General.

During World War II he served in No.13 Company, 20th Battalion, Middlesex Home Guard.