About Peter Inge, Baron Inge
Field Marshal Peter Anthony Inge, Baron Inge (5 August 1935 – 20 July 2022) was a senior British Army officer. He was the Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, from 1992 to 1994 and then served as Chief of the Defence Staff before retiring in 1997. Early in his military career he saw action during the Malayan Emergency and Operation Banner in Northern Ireland, and later in his career he provided advice to the British Government during the Bosnian War. == Early life and education == The son of Raymond Albert Inge and Grace Maud Caroline Inge (née Du Rose), Inge was born in Croydon on 5 August 1935. He was educated first at Summer Fields School, Oxford and then at Wrekin College, Shropshire. He was conscripted into the army for National Service in September 1953 and was sent for officer cadet training at Eaton Hall, Cheshire before attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. == Military career == Inge was commissioned into the Green Howards from Sandhurst on 27 July 1956. He was promoted to lieutenant on 27 July 1958, served with the 1st Battalion the Green Howards in Hong Kong and Germany, and was deployed on operational service to Malaya during the Malayan Emergency. Appointed aide-de-camp to the General Officer Commanding 4th Division in 1960, he was promoted to captain on 27 July 1962, and made adjutant of the 1st Battalion the Green Howards in 1963. After working in the Ministry of Defence, and being promoted to major on 31 December 1967, Inge returned to the 1st Battalion as a company commander in 1969 and was deployed to Northern Ireland.
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