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General Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC & Bar, DL (born 29 April 1934) is a former British Army officer who was Director SAS during the Iranian Embassy siege, and Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in Operation Granby (the Gulf War).
Jan 23, 1997 · BRITAIN's most decorated soldier, the Gulf war commander Gen Sir Peter de la Billiere, refused yesterday to accept that he is banned from attending reunions of his old regiment, the SAS, because...
Peter now began to spell his name de la Billiere, a change which was made permanent in 1992. He joined the King's Shropshire Light Infantry as 2277920 Private de la Billiere, and had little hope or expectation of promotion, but was determined to make his way in the army from the bottom.
Interview with Lieutenant General Sir Peter de la Billiere, Senior British Commander But we weren't going to get Saddam Hussein. He's not going to sit there like a bewildered rabbit and be...
Jul 13, 2021 · The SAS commander, Col. Peter de la Billière — who later became a general and was t he deputy commander of all coalition forces during the Gulf War — pressed for a commando raid to take out...
Sir Peter de la Billière was born in Plymouth at the Charlton Nursing Home on 29 April 1934, the son of Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Claude Dennis Delacour de Labillière and of Francis Christine Wright Lawley.
Mar 7, 2018 · Former Special Air Service commander General Sir Peter de la Billiere outlines what makes a Special Forces soldier, 2018.-----...
Jan 1, 1994 · General Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC & Bar is a former British soldier, who was Director of the United Kingdom Special Forces during the Iranian Embassy Siege and Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the 1990 Gulf War.
Aug 27, 2020 · xii, 449 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm. "From his childhood, rebellion at school, the early death of his father and conflict with his step-father, on to his exploits in the army in Korea, Egypt, Malaya, Oman, Borneo, the Sudan, the Falklands, and the Gulf War, this book chronicles the SAS General's life."--. Includes ...
