Peter Blunt was the father of politician Crispin Blunt and grandfather of actress Emily Blunt.
12 Facts About Peter Blunt
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Peter Blunt left India in 1937 at the age of 14 to enroll as an apprentice tradesman in the Royal Army Service Corps school on the island of Jersey.
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In 1940, after the fall of France, and with the German occupation of the Channel Islands imminent, the school was evacuated and Peter Blunt found himself in an RASC training battalion in England.
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Peter Blunt saw active service in the Italian campaign in 1944, before returning to England for officer training.
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Peter Blunt was then commissioned into the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots Fusiliers in November 1944 as a second lieutenant and commanded a close protection platoon defending Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's 21st Army Group headquarters.
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Peter Blunt was present at the signing of the unconditional German surrender at Luneburg Heath on 4 May 1945.
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Peter Blunt briefly worked as an export manager of the Midland Metal Spinning Company in Wolverhampton but in 1949 returned to the army on a short-service commission in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
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Peter Blunt passed the Staff College, Camberley, in 1957, which opened up his career path as an officer.
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In 1959, Peter Blunt saved a driver whose lorry, carrying a load of petrol, crashed near Bielefeld, Germany.
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Peter Blunt was awarded the George Medal for his courage and humanitarian action.
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Peter Blunt passed the Joint Services Staff College in 1963, and then in 1965 was sent to command 26 Bridging Regiment and, by some accounts, to resolve a mutiny.
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Peter Blunt was a special Commissioner of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, from 1979 to 1985, and a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Carmen from 1973.