Frederick Gerard Peake
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Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Gerard Peake was a British commander and creator of the Arab Legion. Autumn 1920 Peake left the Egyption Camel Corps to report on the security situation in Mandate of Palestine. The situation was found to be insufficent and in October the same year Peake was ordered by the British High Commissioner in Jerusalem to form two small police forces. Those were:
- The Mobile Force, 100 men to guard the Jerusalem-Amman road.
- 50 men to help the British official posted to Kerak east of the Dead Sea.
In 1939, he retired and was succeded by Glubb Pasha. To the Jordanians he became known as "Peake Pasha".
External links & references
Bibliography
- A history of Jordan and its tribes, University of Miami Press, 1958
- Change at St. Boswell's (the story of a border village), John McQueen and Son, 1961
See also: Arab Legion, Transjordan