Rev. Jonathan Peel MC

"The Rev Jonathan Peel, who has died aged 77, won an MC in Malaya in 1957 and was subsequently ordained as an Anglican priest.
In July and August 1957, Peel was serving with 1st Battalion the Rifle Brigade (1 RB) in the region of Mount Ophir, Malaya. He commanded two platoons, often leading patrols himself, and searching for Communist terrorists (CTs) in the jungle.
The traditional method was to select an area of jungle and send in a patrol for a few days. Peel set up a base camp in the jungle for a month or more with the objective of acquiring hard intelligence regarding the routes that the CTs used in their search for food or on journeys to the rubber camps.
He was prepared to travel great distances in the most exacting conditions and to lie up for days with little food in order to set up an effective ambush.
In developing these tactics, his company commander, Captain (later General Sir) Frank Kitson was an important influence and remained a close friend.
Peel was awarded an MC, the citation stating that he had shown “outstanding qualities of leadership far beyond those expected of a 20-year-old officer”.
Jonathan Sidney Peel, a great-great-grandson of Sir Robert Peel, the prime minister, was born in London on June 21 1937. His father was killed in action in Belgium in 1944, as was his grandfather, an Army chaplain, in 1917; both held the MC.
He spent his early years in Wiltshire before his family moved to Norfolk. He was educated at Eton and was a page of honour to King George VI, and to Queen Elizabeth at her Coronation.
Peel was commissioned in 1956 and posted to 1 RB. After operational service in Malaya followed by three years in Germany with BAOR, he was attached to the Ghana army and sent to the Congo as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force. He was captured by disorderly Congolese troops in Léopoldville, beaten, thrown into a cell and told that he would be killed. One of many humiliations was being forced to urinate into a rusty sardine tin."
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