Lieutenant-Colonel P.H.W. Brind
2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment

At one stage got ourselves into the jungles which is extremely difficult to operate in. One of the first things you have to deal with are the wild animals. And it is interesting to note that we suffered I think more casualties from buffalo and rhinoceros charging than we did from the Mau Mau.

(IWM interview, 11 Jan 1988)

Born on 16 February 1912 in Mettingham, Suffolk, Peter Holmes Walter Brind was the son of General Sir John Edward Spencer Brind (1878–1954). He was educated at Royal Military College, Sandhurst and commissioned into the Dorsetshire Regiment in 1932. He was posted to India and became aide-de-camp to the governor of Bengal from 1936 until the eve of the Second World War. He was enroute to the United Kingdom when the war began, and subsequently joined the 2nd Battalion, Dorsets in France.

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