Major-General Roderic Loraine Petre DSO, MC (28 November 1887 – 21 July 1971) was a senior British Army officer.
[2] After graduating from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the South Wales Borderers of the British Army in February 1908.
[3][4] He served with his regiment, initially in China, and later in the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War,[5] and was awarded the Military Cross in 1916.
[9] After being evacuated through Dunkirk, Petre then became GOC of the 48th (South Midland) Division in June 1940 and initiated training to repel Operation Sea Lion, the German invasion of England, which proved abortive, remaining in that role until October 1941.
[8] He served briefly as GOC of IX Corps before being made commander of South Midland District before his retirement from the army in 1944.