Shortly after leaving Caldy Grammar school, Peter joined the Royal Navy in the early stages of the War. He served as an officer in frigates on Atlantic escort duty. On D-Day he was in command of six supply barges, landing on the Normandy beaches on D+1. On being demobbed he started as a dental student at Liverpool University in 1946, qualifying in 1952. A conscientious student he also rowed for the university in a coxed four, sailed at West Kirby and played golf at Caldy. Disaster struck in 1954 when working as a resident SHO at Sefton General Hospital he contracted poliomyelitis and lost the use of his left arm. An unimaginable blow for a dentist. Far seeing professors, Stones and Lawton, recognised the quality of the man and appointed him as lecturer and head of the expanding dental radiology department at Liverpool Dental Hospital. Peter made a reputation as an expert in his field and was admired as a lecturer. In his personal life, disaster struck again in 1966 when his wife, Joan, suddenly died, entirely changing family life for him and his three young children. But in 1969 he married Ann and they happily added a daughter to the family. He was a founder member of the British Society of Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology, as well as its secretary for seven years and president for two separate terms. For his help in setting up the International Association of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology he was made a vice-president in 1971. He was admitted as an FDSRCS in 1984 and in that year was also awarded a diploma in dental radiology by the Royal College of Radiologists. He had the honour of being awarded life membership of the British Dental Association in 1988. His life in retirement was made happy by nine grandchildren and one great grand-daughter. He travelled the country lecturing in aid of the Mary Rose Trust and later on the D-Day ‘Overlord’ tapestries and the historic Bayeux tapestries. With Ann he travelled to distant parts, usually by sea. The sea was in his blood, but his immeasurable contribution was to dental radiology, and of course to his family.