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Peter Munro Sutherland was born in Northumberland on 17 August 1924, the only son of Nina (née Wimble) and Arthur Sutherland. He was educated at Loretto Junior School from 1934 to 1935 and then at Stowe School from 1936 to 1940. After a period of farm work he enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He entered Worcester College, Oxford, on 24 April 1942, as an RAF Cadet on a short course. He was commissioned as a Pilot Officer and was promoted to Flying Officer on 17 March 1944 . He was posted to No. 14 (Pilot) Advanced Training Unit.
On 29 July 1944 Peter Sutherland took off from RAF Fraserburgh in Scotland for a night navigational exercise in an Airspeed Oxford aircraft. The aircraft was descending in cloud when it struck high ground near Bucksburn in Aberdeenshire at 2am. Due to fog, the wreck was not discovered until 7am that morning, when Peter Sutherland was found alive and conscious hanging from the wreckage with his leg trapped. He was taken to the Royal Naval Hospital at Kingseat suffering from fractures of the skull and legs and was placed on the dangerously ill list. Flying Officer Peter Sutherland died of his wounds two days later, on 31 July 1944, aged 19.
Peter Sutherland is buried Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (West Road) Crematorium, and commemorated on the war memorials at Foulden in Berwickshire, Loretto School, Stowe School, and Worcester College, Oxford.