Lieutenant
Colonel Peter W. Reynolds
British Army Chief,
Public Service Section Public
Information Office Strategic
Command Europe ����� Born in Berlin in 1951, Peter Reynolds was
educated in the South of England.� He
joined the Army in 1972 after completing two years management training with a
retail company and was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
in 1973 into the Royal Regiment of Artillery.� As a young officer, he served extensively in the British Army
of the Rhine in Germany in a variety of artillery units and
headquarters.� Promoted to
Major in 1983, he commanded his battery in Germany.� Appointments as Assistant Chief of Staff with 1st
Artillery Brigade and Second-in-Command of 32 Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery,
with whom he fought in the Gulf war, followed. Thereafter he returned to
staff duties, this time in the Ministry of Defence in London, where he dealt
with a wide range of personnel matters, wrote and introduced the first set of
personnel standard operating procedures for the British Army. Subsequently
promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in January 1994, he moved to the Proof and
Experimental Establishment at Shoeburyness in Eastern England as Director of
Operations and Commanding Officer.�
During this time the establishment moved from the public into the
private business sector. Later in the year he was selected to command the
University of Wales Officer Training Corps.�
After two and a half years in command, he took a one year post-graduate
degree in Defence Administration at the U.K.�s Royal Military College of
Science, where he researched Defence Procurement in the US, UK and Germany
1955-98, before deploying on a six month operational tour to Sarajevo in
September 1998 as the Director of the Coalition Press and Information Centre. His current
appointment has seen him lecture to a wide variety of audiences, both
academic and general across North America and on the continent of Europe.
Since the start of his current tour he has lectured at some 45 major
universities and colleges in the US and Canada, briefed numerous political
staffs and taken part in many TV and radio interviews. In Europe he has
briefed parliamentary defence committees, political leaders at all levels of
government and shared the platform with a variety of notable contributors to
the defence environment. Lieutenant Colonel Reynolds has played rugby for the British Army and most recently in Sarajevo where he started a multinational team and initiated sponsorship by UK companies for a local junior sports team mainly composed of orphans from Srebrenica.� In the past he has also organised a range of military shows and festivals. He skis, sails and is computer literate.� A professionally accredited interpreter of the German language, he also speaks French and understands Dutch and Italian. |