General Sir Peter William Cradock Hellings, KCB, DSC, MC, DL (1916–1990) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1968 to 1971.
The balls-aching seriousness of life today comes from America and is terrible. In those days everybody was in plain clothes by lunchtime and then the officers and men would have a splendid time playing games or shooting – and we still won wars.