General Sir Peter John Frederick Whiteley, GCB, OBE, DL (13 December 1920 – 2 February 2016)[1] was a British Royal Marines officer.
He served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1975 to 1977 and then as Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe from 1977 to 1979.
[2] Whiteley was awarded a Newspaper Proprietors' Association scholarship to study at the University of London.
[2] At the outbreak of the Second World War, Whiteley volunteered for the Royal Air Force.
[2] He could claim to have fired some of the last shots of the war: on 15 August 1945, during an attack by a Japanese aircraft on his ship, he was attempting to shoot it down when the news of the ceasefire with Japan was received.