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This list includes notable individuals who served in the Special Air Service (SAS) – (Regular or TA).. Michael Asher – author, historian and desert explorer; Sir Peter de la Billière – Commander-in-Chief British Forces in the Gulf War
McAleese died on 26 August 2011 of a heart attack in his sleep at the age of 62 in Thessaloniki, Greece, where he was living. His funeral was held at Hereford Cathedral. [13] He was survived by his second wife, a daughter by his first marriage, and step child and son by his second marriage. His second wife died by suicide in November 2018. [14]
Peter McAleese (7 September 1942 – 18 March 2024) was a Scottish soldier and mercenary. McAleese served in the British Army's Parachute Regiment and Special Air Service (SAS), the Rhodesian Special Air Service and British South Africa Police, and South Africa's 44 Parachute Brigade. As a mercenary or contractor, he worked in countries ...
Tommy Lazzaro, a Special Forces soldier who previously played quarterback for Central Michigan University, has died. He was 27. Lazzaro was at a hunting location in Eglin Air Force Base in Walton ...
Bruce was born in Chipping Norton, in Oxfordshire, England, on 8 August 1956.He came from a family with a military tradition, being the middle son of a father who had been a fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, [4] and the paternal grandson of Major Ewen Cameron Bruce.
Sergeant Alastair Ira Slater, MM (25 July 1956 – 2 December 1984 [1]) was a British Army soldier who served in 'B' Squadron, Air (7) Troop, 22 Special Air Service (SAS), [2] [3] who was killed on 2 December 1984 in a confrontation with the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Kesh, a village in County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling, DSO, OBE (15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990) was a Scottish officer in the British Army and the founder and creator of the Special Air Service (SAS). Under his leadership, the SAS carried out hit-and-run raids behind the Axis lines of the North African campaign.
Frank Collins (5 November 1956 – 16 June 1998) was a Church of England clergyman and the first 22 SAS soldier to enter the building in the Iranian Embassy Siege in 1980. Whilst with 22 SAS B Squadron (Air) Troop, Collins served with both Al Slater and Charles "Nish" Bruce. He left the service in 1989 after 15 years to work in security and ...