Lance Corporal Peter Goggins (1894 – 18 January 1917) was a British soldier who was executed for desertion during the First World War.

Whilst sheltering from a bombardment two British soldiers, fleeing a German raid, ran past their position shouting "Run for your lives; the Huns are on top of you!".

Despite being in charge Goggins subsequently admitted at his trial that he had failed to visit the front line sentries before withdrawing.

The sentences were supported by Brigadier-General Henry O'Donnell, who wrote that he had doubts about the quality of the evidence, but felt that the executions were necessary to set an example to other men in the battalion.

[4] He was seldom mentioned by his family, who saw his conviction as a source of shame, and his niece, Marina Brewis, who had simply been told that he died in the war, only learned his true fate years later from a television documentary.