Surveying the pieces, Mark shared: “We have a Territorial medal here. He went to France and he starts off his war by coming off a beach, somewhere called Dunkirk because he has the Dunkirk medal as well. What did he join then?”
“He joined the parachute regiment, did his training and once he’d got his wings, he immediately volunteered for SAS and was accepted,” the guest answered.
“That’s no mean feat,” Mark declared. “The SAS at that time is a very new organisation, it comes from the Long Range Desert Group which was out in the desert with Colonel Stirling and it turns into this incredibly formidable unit.”
“You have his certificate of service signed by no less a person than Paddy Mayne, commanding officer of the SAS at that time and a name who people who know about World War II will be so familiar with. But there it is, signed by the man himself.
