Peter Blunt

Major General Peter Blunt CB, MBE, GM (18 August 1923 – 8 August 2003) was a British Army officer and business man.

Life and career

Born at Farnborough, Hampshire, into an army family, Blunt was the son of Claudia Mabel (née Wintle) and Albert G. Blunt. He was educated in India before returning to England in 1937 at the age of fourteen to enrol as an apprentice tradesman in the Royal Army Service Corps school on the island of Jersey. In 1940, after the fall of France, and with the German occupation of the Channel Islands imminent, the school was evacuated and Blunt found himself in an RASC training battalion. He saw active service in the Italian campaign in 1944 before returning to England for officer training. He was then commissioned into the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots Fusiliers as a second lieutenant and commanded a close protection platoon defending Field Marshal Montgomery's 21st Army Group headquarters. He was present at the signing of the unconditional German surrender at Lüneburg Heath on 4 May 1945.