Frederick Gerard Peake
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Major-General Frederick Gerard Peake, CMG, CBE, was a British commander and creator of the Arab Legion.
In Autumn 1920 Peake left the Egyptian Camel Corps to report on the security situation in Mandate of Palestine. The situation was found to be insufficient and in October the same year Peake, then a Lieutenant-Colonel, 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.
He became a Major-General in the army of Transjordan.
In 1939, he retired and was succeeded by Glubb Pasha. To the Jordanians he became known as "Peake Pasha".
His daughter, Julia Grace Peake, was born on July 12, 1941. She first married David Grant, and second Sir Hugh Arbuthnot, 7th Bt.
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- A history of Jordan and its tribes, University of Miami Press, 1958
- Change at St. Boswells (the story of a border village), John McQueen and Son, 1961
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