About Peter Leuchars
Lived 1921 – 2009 (aged 87). Peter Leuchars was a British military leader.
Major-General Peter Raymond Leuchars, (29 October 1921 – 17 July 2009) was a British Army officer who saw service in north west Europe during the Second World War.
Military career Educated at Bradfield College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Leuchars was commissioned into the Welsh Guards in 1941. He saw action at the Normandy landings in June 1944 and then in north west Europe during the Second World War.
He was a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Venerable Order of St John and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He was twice mentioned in dispatches. He died on 17 July 2009.
He married Gillian Nivison, daughter of John Nivison, 2nd Baron Glendyne, in 1953; they had one son.
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Peter Leuchars was born on 29 October 1921.
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