Peter Leng

General Sir Peter John Hall Leng, (9 May 1925 – 11 February 2009) was a British Army General and Master-General of the Ordnance (1981–1983) & Counter Terrorism Expert in Northern Ireland.

Military service Leng was born in 1925 in Sunderland and went to Bradfield College, Berkshire. He was commissioned into the Scots Guards in 1944. He was awarded a Military Cross in April 1945 for his actions in Visselhövede in Germany. Leng, as platoon officer, led forward a section and captured over 60 German prisoners. He was then wounded in May during the advance on Hamburg.

Personal life He first married Virginia Rosemary Pearson, dissolved in 1981. He then remarried to Flavia Tower, daughter of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Browning and novelist Daphne de Maurier. His second wife survives him along with several children from his first marriage.