Major-General Leslie "Pete" de Malapert Thuillier, CB,

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, (26 September 1905 – 23 March 1999) was a

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officer of the

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who served with distinction in the Second World War and later set up the hotline between

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and

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."Major-General L. de M. Thuillier", ''

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'', 25 March 1999, p. 28. His grandfather was

Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier Colonel Sir Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier, (1838–1922) was a British Army officer and the Surveyor General of India from 1887 to 1895. Thuillier was the son of Henry Edward Landor Thuillier, also Surveyor General of India. His mother was Susanne E ...

, and his great-grandfather was

Henry Edward Landor Thuillier Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier (10 July 1813 – 6 May 1906) was Surveyor General of India. Under his direction, 796,928 square miles of India were surveyed, including difficult mountainous, forest, and desert regions, often for the first t ...

, both Surveyor Generals of India.

Selected publications

*''Everest Observed''

References

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