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Peter Walls
Lieutenant General George Peter Walls MBE GLM (1927〔-2010 (Walls: "We will make it work" ) Time magazine and CNN〕 – 20 July 2010) served as the Commander of the Combined Operations Headquarters of the Military of Rhodesia, and later Zimbabwe, from 1977 until his retirement on 29 July 1980 during the Rhodesian Bush War.〔Kalley, Jacqueline Audrey. ''Southern African Political History: A chronological of key political events from independence to mid-1997'', 1999. Page 711-712.〕〔Peter Abbott and Philip Botham. ''Modern African Wars (1): Rhodesia 1965-80'', 1986. Page 11.〕 In his latter years, he lived in exile in Eastern Cape, South Africa.〔(Zanu-PF's Walls 'manhunt' backfires ) Dispatch〕
==Military service==
(詳細はRoyal Military College, Sandhurst, in England,〔 and fought for the British Empire in the Second World War. After the war he served in the Black Watch, in which on 16 March 1946 he was promoted from Cadet to Second Lieutenant. Resigning his commission, he joined the Southern Rhodesian Army as a corporal and commanded the all-Rhodesian "C" Squadron of the Special Air Service in Malaya during the Rhodesian participation in the Malayan Emergency. He became the commanding officer of the Rhodesian Light Infantry in November 1964. In December Brigadier Rodney Putterill reproached Walls for letting his men wear paper hats at a Christmas dinner with the words, "RLI for UDI." In 1972 Walls became the General Officer Commanding the Rhodesian Security Forces, and in 1977 he became the Commander of Combined Operations, the head of the Rhodesian Army.〔〔Wood, J. R. T.'' 'So Far and No Further!' Rhodesia's Bid for Independence During the Retreat from Empire 1959'', 2005, p. 244〕
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