Lieutenant-Colonel E.H.G. Grant
5th Battalion, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders

Peter Hunt was a typical example of the best sort of traditional British general: brave, upright, straightforward, cheerful, friendly and with a sympathetic understanding of the needs, interests and emotions of all ranks, whether Scottish, English, Welsh, Irish or Gurkha.

(Michael Carver, The Independent, 7 Oct 1988, 17)

Born on 11 March 1916 in London, Peter Mervyn Hunt was a graduate of Royal Military College, Sandhurst and commissioned into the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders in 1936. In summer 1939, he was captain and adjutant of the 2nd Battalion, Liverpool Scottish before transferring to the 1st Battalion, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders following the declaration of war. He was wounded during the evacuated from Dunkirk and four years later returned to France as a reinforcement officer for the 5th Battalion, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders.

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