Peter Hellings

General Sir Peter William Cradock Hellings, KCB, DSC, MC, DL (1916–1990) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1968 to 1971.

Quotes

 * The balls-aching seriousness of life today comes from America and is terrible. In those days everybody was in plain clothes by lunchtime and then the officers and men would have a splendid time playing games or shooting – and we still won wars.
 * Southby-Tailyour, Ewen (1998). Blondie – a Biography of Lieutenant–Colonel H. G. Hasler DSO OBE RM. Leo Cooper. p. 10. ISBN 9780850525168