| Unit or location | Role | Posted from | until |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Riding Scout Section | Scout Section Commander | Unknown | 04 Dec 1941 |
| Middleton Hall, Middleton-on-the-Wolds, East Riding, Yorkshire | Intelligence Officer | 05 Dec 1941 | 29 Jan 1942 |
| Yorkshire (East Riding) | Intelligence Officer | 1941 | 1942 |
St Edwards, Oxford,
Jesus College, Cambridge
He joined the Territorial Army September 1939 in the ranks.
He was commissioned May 1940 to 5th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment.
He joined Auxiliary Units, initially as Scout Section Officer circa November 1940, promoted to be Intelligence Officer a year later.
He later served with the East African Rifles. He was involved with covert operations to infiltrate Madagascar prior to the Allied landings.
His Obituary from Jesus College reads;
Hollis, Peter (1946) died on 22 February 2002 aged 81.
The son of a cleric, Peter Hollis was born in Hull on 19 September 1920. He attended St Edward’s School, Oxford, until 1939 when he joined the 5th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment and served as an officer for the duration of the War.
He came up in 1946 to read History and determined to be ordained. After training at Wells Theological College, he was priested at Birmingham in 1952 and, after two curacies, served from 1957 to 1967 as Vicar of Kingshurst, Birmingham, a brand-new housing estate which grew to some 10,000 residents. In 1967, he moved to become Rector of St Gregory’s, Sudbury, Suffolk, where he remained until his retirement in 1986. For a number of years he was Chairman of the Governors of Sudbury Upper School.
He was a man of deeply held convictions. A founder member of Amnesty International, he actively supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Anti-Apartheid movement and a number of organisations concerned with free trade. He was once called to debate by his parochial church council for having given out details of a coach trip by the local branch of CND to support the women anti-war protesters at Greenham Common.
On retirement, he moved with his family to a village on the outskirts of Sudbury. The address at his funeral was given by Lord Phillips of Sudbury and ended with the words: ‘Let us now praise Peter Hollis and give thanks for his strong vulnerability, his enhancing ministry, his humble example, his loveability, his life’.
https://issuu.com/stedwardsose/docs/chronicle_2010-11/192
https://collegecollections.jesus.cam.ac.uk/uploads/r/null/f/6/5/f659de5…
East Ridings Secret Resistance, Alan Williamson