Peter Hore

Peter Hore served worldwide during a full career in the Royal Navy, spent nine years in the film and TV industry, and is now a fulltime writer, editor and journalist. A freelance obituarist at the London Daily Telegraph since 2002, he has written some two thousand obituaries on the men and women of the Royal Navy and of the Royal Marines including the SBS, the FANY, the French Resistance, yachtsmen, shipping magnates and many others.

Peter is a busy public speaker and cruise lecturer, and writes reviews and articles for several newspapers and journals.

He is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society for Nautical Research, a chartered member of the Institute of Linguists, and a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Society for Nautical Sciences.