Peter Francis Thorne

Sir Peter Francis Thorne, KCVO, CBE, ERD (6 August 1914 – 16 March 2004) was a British Army officer.

[3][2] In 1959 Thorne married the physicist Anne Patricia Pery (daughter of Edmund Colquhoun Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick and Angela Olivia Trotter), with whom he had one son and three daughters.

[4] Thorne crossed to France with the 3rd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards in 1939 to fight in the Second World War.

[2] He was wounded at Comines, Nord, during the Allied retreat to Dunkirk.

[3] Thorne was a member of the Cavalry and Guards Club and the Royal Yacht Squadron.