231791 Pte. Christopher A. Peters British Army 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade from:London Chris Peters was a member of the 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade in the Second World War. He admitted that he found Army discipline difficult at first but soon became an accomplished Rifleman within the Battalion.
He landed on the Normandy Beaches and amazingly survived the campaigns throughout France, Belgium and Holland and the breakthrough into Germany as part of 22nd Armoured Brigade within 7th Armoured Division. He operated throughout in mechanized platoon in a Bren Gun Carrier. He proudly wore the Red "Desert Gerboa" on the sleeves of his battledress and this was captured in a superb portrait by a German National with whom he was billeted immediately after the war north of Hamburg.
He was a proud soldier and returned home to create a very successful building and construction business in London and had his own horse in stables close to Hyde Park Corner and frequently rode out in Rotten Row. He regrettably died of cancer in Rottingdean in Sussex many years after the end of the war.
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