Bear Grylls
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Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls is a British adventurer, television presenter and former SAS trooper. He holds several world records in hostile environments, and appeared in numerous wilderness survival
Grylls at a meeting with Coventry Scouts groups in 2012
Grylls inspecting junior soldiers passing out of AFC Harrogate in 2024
Grylls in 2014
Bear Grylls on a flying trapeze in 2016 during a Bush Scout UK event
21 SAS (Reserve)
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The 21 Special Air Service Regiment, historically known as The Artists Rifles, is a regiment of the British Army Reserve. Its name is abbreviated to 21 SAS.
Bear Grylls
…2002. After leaving school, Grylls hiked in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim and West Bengal. From 1994 to 1997, he served in the Territorial Army with 21 SAS as a trooper. His time in the SAS ended as the result of a free fall parachuting accident in Zambia in 1996; his parachute failed to open, causing him…
Artists Rifles Memorial at Burlington House, London
The Place, 17 Duke's Road, Bloomsbury, built 1888 as the headquarters of the 20th Middlesex (Artists') Rifle Volunteer Corps
Over The Top, 1918, oil on canvas, by John Nash
Player's cigarette card showing a soldier of the Artists Rifles in the new field service dress