Captain Peter Hore served worldwide during a full career in the Royal Navy, spent nine years in the film and TV industry, and is now a fulltime author, editor and journalist. A freelance obituarist at the London Daily Telegraph since 2002, he has written over a thousand obituaries on the men and women of the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines and others. He has written several books on naval history and biography and is a busy public speaker. He also writes reviews and articles for several newspapers and journals, and is the editor of the Trafalgar Chronicle. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society for Nautical Research, a chartered member of the Institute of Linguists, and a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Society for Nautical Sciences. Peter was a speaker on a Jon Baines Tours Maritime History Cruise visiting Seville in 2018.