Robert Peters (RAF officer)

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Robert Peters
Born (1940-08-22) 22 August 1940 (age 79)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Air Force
Years of service1961–93
Rank Air Vice Marshal
Commands held British Forces Cyprus
RAF Staff College, Bracknell
RAF St Mawgan
No. 10 Squadron
Awards Companion of the Order of the Bath

Air Vice Marshal Robert Geoffrey Peters, CB (born 22 August 1940) is a former Royal Air Force officer who served as Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Bracknell.

RAF career

Educated at St Paul's School, London, Peters joined the Royal Air Force in 1961. [1] He became Officer Commanding No. 10 Squadron in 1977, a staff officer at the Directorate of Forward Policy (RAF) in 1979 and Personal Staff Officer to the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe in 1981. [1] He went on to be Station Commander at RAF St Mawgan in 1984, air attaché in Washington, D.C. in 1987 and Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Bracknell in 1990 before retiring in 1993. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, 2010, ISBN   978-1-4081-1414-8
  2. "Senior Royal Air Force appointments" (PDF). Retrieved 6 June 2015.
Military offices
Preceded by
Sandy Hunter
Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Bracknell
1990–1993
Succeeded by
Michael Donaldson