Paddy Mayne
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Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Blair Mayne,, best known as Paddy Mayne or familiarly as Blair, was a British Army officer from Newtownards. He was an amateur boxing champion, qualified as a solicitor and p
Mayne as a lieutenant near Kabrit, Egypt, in 1942
Col. Mayne's gravestone at Movilla Abbey in Newtownards, Co. Down
Special Air Service
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The Special Air Service is a special forces unit of the British Army. It was founded as a regiment in 1941 by David Stirling, and in 1950 it was reconstituted as a corps. The unit specialises in a num
Paddy Mayne
…an amateur boxing champion, qualified as a solicitor and played rugby union for Ireland and the British Lions before becoming a founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS). Serving with distinction during the Second World War, Mayne became one of the British Army's most highly decorated officers. He was controversially…
SAS patrol in North Africa during WWII (1943)
21 SAS soldier after a night parachute drop exercise in Denmark (1955)
Pen y Fan 2,907 feet (886 m) above sea level, the location for the Fan Dance
Ascension memorial at Hereford Cathedral