Peter Gilchrist

Major-General Peter Gilchrist CB is a former Master-General of the Ordnance.

Military career
Gilchrist was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment in 1973.

He was appointed an Executive Director at the Defence Procurement Agency and Master-General of the Ordnance in 2000.

In 2004 he was deployed Afghanistan as Deputy Commander at Combined Forces Command and then became Head of the British Defence Staff in Washington and the British member of the United Nations' Military Staff Committee. He retired in 2009.