Peters, Frederic Thornton “Fritz”

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Wiki Biography:
- Acting Captain Frederic Thornton “Fritz” Peters (usually misspelled with the letter “k” in official documents) VC, DSO, DSC & Bar (17 September 1889 – 13 November 1942) was a Canadian-born sailor in the Royal Navy and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for valour in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was also the first Canadian to ever win the Distinguished Service Order. In addition to his service with the Royal Navy, Fritz worked with British Naval Intelligence and the Secret Intelligence Service, and advised Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- Peters’ parents were Frederick Peters (Premier of Prince Edward Island, 1891–1897) and Roberta Hamilton Susan Gray (daughter of John Hamilton Gray, who was Premier of Prince Edward Island at the time of the Charlottetown Conference of 1864). He was educated at St. Peter’s School on Prince Edward Island, at school in British Columbia and at Naval School in England. Two of Peters’ brothers died in action on the Western Front during the First World War—John Francklyn Peters in April 1915 and Gerald Hamilton Peters in June 1916.
- Peters entered the Royal Navy as naval cadet in 1905.
- After some success at sea, Peters was then transferred to the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), to become the 1st Commandant of the School for Destruction (D School), which operated out of the estate grounds and manner of Brickendonbury, a vast estate in Hertfordshire.
- Mount Peters, near Nelson, British Columbia where his mother lived in her last years with the family of her daughter Helen Dewdney and her husband E.E.L. Dewdney, was named in his honour in 1946.
Second Great Grandson of United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=6550
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