Peter Acland
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Brigadier Peter Bevil Edward Acland was a British Army officer.
Brigadier Acland in 1953
Royal Devon Yeomanry
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The Royal Devon Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1920. It participated in the Second World War and now forms a squadron of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry.
Peter Acland
…King's Birthday Honours. Three years later, he received the Territorial Decoration. Acland was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1947, commanding the 296 Field Regiment, Royal Devon Yeomanry the next four years until 1951, when he was granted the rank of honorary brigadier. He became colonel in 1954 and retired from active service in 1961…
Badge of the Royal Devon Yeomanry Artillery
A battery of 142nd Field Regiment Bishops at a former German airfield in Sicily, October 1943