Rank: Captain
Unit: HMS Excellent, Royal Navy
Nationality: Canadian
The citation in the London Gazette of 14th May 1943, reads:
For valour in taking H.M.S. Walney, in an enterprise of desperate hazard, into the harbour of Oran on 8th November 1942. Captain Peters led his force through the boom towards the jetty in the face of point-blank fire from the shore batteries, a destroyer and a cruiser. Blinded in one eye, he alone of the seventeen officers and men on the bridge survived. The Walney reached the jetty disabled and ablaze, and went down with her colours flying.
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Also awarded the DSO and DSC and Bar.
Peters was killed 5 days later in an air crash.