Peter Gilchrist (British Army officer)

Educated at Marlborough College, Gilchrist was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment in 1973.{{London Gazette|issue=45892|supp=y|page=1351|date=30 January 1973}} He became commanding officer of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment in 1993, Deputy Director of Ordnance in 1996 and Programme Director for Armoured Systems in 1998.Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, 2010, {{ISBN|978-1-4081-1414-8}} He went on to be an executive director at the Defence Procurement Agency and Master-General of the Ordnance in 2000.{{London Gazette|issue=55763|supp=y|page=1655|date=15 February 2000}} He was deployed to Afghanistan as Deputy Commander at Combined Forces Command in 2004,[http://www.wiltonpark.org/documents/conferences/WPS05-28/pdfs/WPS05-28.pdf Wilton Park]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and then became Head of the British Defence Staff and Defence Attaché in Washington, D.C. in 2006.Whitaker's Almanack 2006 He retired in 2009.{{London Gazette|issue=59058|supp=y|page=8059|date=12 May 2009}}

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