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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, DSO & Three Bars (11 January 1915 – 14 December 1955), better known as Paddy Mayne, was a British Army officer from Newtownards, capped for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions at rugby union, lawyer, amateur boxer, and a founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS).
Lieutenant-Colonel ‘Paddy’ Mayne is a legendary figure in the history of the Special Forces. A celebrated sportsman with a turbulent character, he played a vital role in the early successes of the Special Air Service (SAS), becoming one of its most important commanders.
8 dic 2022 · Paddy Mayne was one of the British Army’s most decorated soldiers after the Second World War. While viewers of the BBC’s adrenaline-fuelled drama, SAS Rogue Heroes, are left in no doubt about...
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2 giu 2017 · Paddy Mayne: The bravehearted Irish Lion who joined the SAS. The Ulster man gave it all in the Lions’ 1938 South Africa tour and the second World War. John O'Sullivan. Fri Jun 2 2017 - 09:50....
17 ago 2021 · A born fighter who thrived in the eye of the storm, Robert Blair Mayne was known to fellow soldiers as “Paddy.” Born Jan. 11, 1915, in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland, to a large Protestant family, Mayne was a quiet young man with literary ambitions who studied law at Queen’s University in Belfast.
19 set 2018 · Blair “Paddy” Mayne was one of the pillars of the early SAS. A man of extraordinary nerve but equally a man with a problematic temperament, Mayne epitomised the qualities you’d look for in an SAS operative. But there were undoubtedly aspects of his personality that would cause any commander to doubt his suitability.
Commando Paddy Mayne: Ireland’s Wolf of the Desert - Warfare History Network. The exploits of Irishman Paddy Mayne became the stuff of legend during commando operations. This article appears in: November 2007. By Kelly Bell. The night of December 14, 1941, was bitterly cold in the North African desert.
