Peter Devlin

Peter Devlin
Peter Devlin (left)
Allegiance	Canada
Service/branch	Canadian Army
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	1st Bn The Royal Canadian Regiment 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group
Battles/wars	Bosnian War War in Afghanistan Iraq War
Awards	Commander of the Order of Military Merit Meritorious Service Cross Canadian Forces Decoration

Lieutenant General Peter John Devlin CMM, MSC, CD was a senior officer in the Canadian Army and is currently President of Fanshawe College. He served as Commander of the Canadian Army from 2010 to 2013.

Educated at the University of Western Ontario, Devlin was commissioned into The Royal Canadian Regiment, having joined the Canadian Forces in 1978. Devlin served in an operational role in Cyprus between 1984 and 1985 and in the Former Yugoslavia in 1992, 1996 and 1998. In 1994, following his experiences in the Former Yugoslavia, Devlin published a report which was critical of the fact that the international community "had no International Peacekeeping Training Centre".

He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion of The Royal Canadian Regiment in 1997. Then, in 1998, he was the Canadian Battle Group Commanding Officer in Bosnia.

He became Commander of 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group in 2002.

He served with the International Security Assistance Force as Commander of the Kabul Multinational Brigade in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2004.

He was appointed Deputy Commanding General of III (US) Corps and Fort Hood, Texas in 2005 and deployed with the Corps to Iraq. He was Deputy Commanding General of the Multi-National Corps – Iraq from 2006 to 2008 – in that capacity he told the Washington Post that the Multi-National Force was giving "greater legitimacy to the effort here in Iraq.". In 2008 he was made Deputy Commander of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Command.