Peter Walker

Air Marshal Peter Brett Walker, (29 September 1949 – 6 September 2015) was a Royal Air Force officer who served as Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey from 2011 to 2015.

Early life The son of a Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot, Peter Brett Walker was born on 29 September 1949 in the Staffordshire village of Rowley Regis. He was initially educated at Pocklington School, before joining Durham University to read for a General Arts degree at Hatfield College. As a student he played rugby for the University 4th XV alongside Richard Paniguian, who would go on to a long career with BP and latterly the Government of the United Kingdom.

RAF career Walker joined the Royal Air Force as a flight cadet in 1968 while at university and in 1971 entered the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. Selected for training as a fighter-pilot, his first posting was at No. 29 Squadron, based at RAF Coningsby. In 1993 he went to the Falkland Islands to command RAF Mount Pleasant. Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations) in 2001, He went on to be Commander of the Joint Warfare Centre in Norway in 2005, and retired in 2007.

Reputation Walker was described as a 'charismatic fighter pilot' by one former colleague and also said to have a highly aggressive style of flying.