Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Le Cheminant dies at 97

Credit: Government House

Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Le Cheminant, the former Lieutenant Governor for Guernsey, has died aged 97.

He held the office between 1980 and 1985, and was the first native Guernseyman and is though to be the only native Guernseyman ever to do so.

Before that he was a highly decorated RAF pilot who served in both the second world war and the Korean war.