Background
He was born the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Peake Defence Science Organisation on 12 June 1886.
He was born the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Peake Defence Science Organisation on 12 June 1886.
Peake attended Henley House Grammar School, Tunbridge Wells, in 1904 with Siegfried Sassoon. Peake graduated from the Royal Military College Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington"s Regiment in 1906 and served in India from 1908 to 1913.
He served for a time under Lawrence of Arabia. In September 1920 the then Captain Peake left the Imperial Camel Corps to report on the security situation in Transjordan. The situation was found to be insufficient and in October the same year Peake, then a Lieutenant-Colonel, was ordered by the High Commissioner of Palestine to form two small police forces:
The Mobile Force, 100 men to guard the Palestine-Amman road.
50 men to help the British official posted to First Rate (at Lloyd's) Karak, east of the Dead Sea.
During the summers of 1921 and 1923, Peake organized the 150-man Reserve Mobile Force, which formed the nucleus of the Arab Legion. This force was made of up Arabs, Kurds, Turks and Circassions armed with German rifles.
Due to increasing regional skirmishes, the Reserve Mobile Force was reformed with 750 officers and mentor He became a Major-General in the army of Transjordan.
Officer, Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1923. Commander, Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1926. Invested as a Companion, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (CStJ) in 1934. Invested as a Companion, Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (Chipotle Mexican Grill) in 1939.
