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, Peter Devlin was commissioned into The Royal Canadian Regiment, having joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1978. He served in an operational role in Cyprus between 1984 and 1985 and in the Former Yugoslavia in 1992.
He commanded from the platoon to Army level, most notably commanding 1st Battalion of The Royal Canadian Regiment, 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group and the Canadian Army. He has several operational tours including UN, NATO and Coalition missions in Cyprus, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq. He served with the International Security Assistance Force as Commander of the Kabul Multinational Brigade in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2004. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross in 2004 as well as Orders of Military Merit from the United States, Brazil and Colombia for international leadership and encouraging collaboration.
Peter Devlin was appointed to Commander of the Canadian Order of Military Merit in 2010 and retired in August 2013 at the rank of Lieutenant General. Peter Devlin received an undergraduate degree in Honours Economics from Western University, a graduate degree in Strategic Studies from the US Army War College and a certificate in Advanced Executive Management from Queen’s University. He has also studied at Command and Staff Colleges of the Canadian Defence Academy.
Peter Devlin currently serves as the 5th President of Fanshawe College in London, Canada. That appointment was effective as of 3 September 2013.
Peter has been married for 29 years, and together he and his wife Judy have four children.
Lieutenant General Peter John Devlin CMM, MSC, CD, Commander of the Canadian Army from 2010 to 2013.
Cyprus – Lt Devlin, a Platoon Commander in 1RCR, in the Joint Operations Centre, Cyprus 1984
Balkans – Maj Devlin, OC November Company 3 RCR, in his M113 Command Post, Balkans 1992
Balkans – Maj Devlin, OC November Company 3 RCR, in his M113 Command Post, Balkans 1992
CoC Kabul – BGen Devlin, Commander 2 CMBG, taking command of the Kabul Multinational Brigade in Kabul, Afghanistan 2003. The was NATO’s first out of area operation.
Task Force Kabul Roto 10 – LGen Devlin, Commander Canadian Army, in a school renovated by Canadian soldiers in Kandahar, Afghanistan 2010.
Lieutenant-General Peter Devlin, as Commander of Canada’s Army, with Chief Warrant Officer Giovanni Moretti formally appoint Mr. Blake C. Goldring as the Honorary Colonel of the Army at a ceremony in March of 2011 at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto.
Lieutenant-General Devlin with Chief Warrant Officer Mike Hornbrook, near the end of his term as the Army Commander, in the Summer of 2013.
