Peter Deakin (British Army officer)

Major-General Cecil Martin Fothergill ('Peter') Deakin CB, CBE (December 1910 – 8 September 1992) was a British Army officer.

Peter Deakin
BornDecember 1910
Died8 September 1992
Balfron, Scotland
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
RankMajor-General
Commands held32nd Guards Brigade
29th Infantry Brigade
56th (London) Armoured Division
Battles/warsSecond World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Military career

Deakin was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards on 29 January 1931.[1] After serving the Second World War he became commander of 32nd Guards Brigade in July 1953, commander of 29th Infantry Brigade in January 1955 and Director of Military Training at the War Office in January 1959.[2] We went on to be General Officer Commanding 56th (London) Infantry Division in March 1959 and then Director-General of the Territorial Army in August 1960 before retiring in September 1962.[2]

He was known as "Peter".[3]

Family

In 1934 he married Evelyn Mary Frances Grant, daughter of Colonel Sir Arthur Grant of Monymusk, 10th Baronet; they had a son and a daughter.[4]

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References
  1. "No. 33685". The London Gazette. 30 January 1931. p. 675.
  2. "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  3. "20th Century Grenadiers of General rank". Grenadier Guards. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  4. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003
Military offices
Preceded by
Robert Bray		 GOC 56th (London) Armoured Division
1959–1960		 Succeeded by
Post disbanded
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