Ubique
Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of General Sir Peter Wall as the new Chief of the General Staff
General Sir Peter Wall KCB CBE ADC Gen
General Sir Peter Wall (Late Corps of Royal Engineers) is currently Commander-in-Chief Land Forces.
Peter Wall was commissioned into the Royal Engineers (RE) in 1974 then read Engineering at Cambridge. His early service was spent in Belize and Rhodesia, in ‘Cold War’ Germany, as a platoon instructor at Sandhurst, and in Hong Kong.
He has commanded 9 Parachute Squadron RE, 32 Engineer Regiment in Hohne – including time in Bosnia, 16 Air Assault Brigade in the UK, the Joint Force Headquarters, and 1st (UK) Armoured Division in Iraq and Germany.
Staff posts have included Chief of Staff of 5 Airborne Brigade, a Military Adviser post in MOD, Project Manager in Abbey Wood, Chief of Staff of the UK National Contingent HQ for Op TELIC 1, and Deputy Chief of Joint Operations (Ops) in the Permanent Joint Headquarters.
In July 2009 he moved from Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations) in MOD to become Commander-in-Chief Land Forces in Wilton.
He is Chief Royal Engineer and president of Army rugby, Association Football, modern pentathlon and sport parachuting. Married to Fiona, they have two teenage sons, Alexander and Archie. He follows most sports and plays occasional games of golf and village cricket.
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On my late granddad’s behalf, at least, I will applaud an engineer taking his turn at bat.
And to shamelessly aid the current tone of the thread, I’ll pass on a joke he and his outfit used to make : on the few occasions they were in the line of fire, they liked to head straight for the arty’s designated target because that was the safest place to be ;-)
Dropshorts, all over the place, exactly!
Oh shit, that the gunners I can add to my ‘Corps to Insult’ list, already have the Pioneers on there!
How does the old joke go?
Ubique = All over the place
Not that this is of any comment or relevance to the following story. Obviously that’s the RA not the RE.