Peter White

Admiral Sir Peter White, GBE (25 January 1919 – 22 May 2010) was a Royal Navy supply officer who ended his career as Chief of Fleet Support.

Naval career Educated at Dover College, White joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1937 and was then deployed to the China Station. He served in World War II seeing action off Norway and at the Dunkirk evacuation. Later in the War he served in the Far East and was present at the Japanese surrender ceremony in September 1945. and retired in July 1977.

In retirement he became an associate director at the Industrial Society.

He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1977.

Family In 1947 he married Audrey Wallin; they had two sons. Following the death of his first wife, he married Joan Davenport in 2007.