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30 de oct. de 2022 · David Stirling founded the SAS. In the BBC One drama, we meet David Stirling, the founder of the SAS, played by Connor Swindells. David Stirling was born in Keir House, in central Scotland, on November 15, 1915. His father, Archie Stirling, was a veteran of the Boer War and World War I. So it was only right that David followed in his father’s ...
7 de nov. de 2022 · Connor Swindells takes on the lead role of David Stirling in the BBC One drama SAS Rogue Heroes. David Stirling was a Scottish officer in the army and the founder of the Special Air Force. The officer formed the SAS after he injured himself in a parachute accident in Cairo. Bored out of his mind in hospital, David decided to put his radical ...
13 de jun. de 2011 · The Phantom Major. : Virginia Cowles. Pen and Sword, Jun 13, 2011 - History - 320 pages. An action-packed biography of “one of the legitimate storybook heroes of World War II” and the special forces regiment he founded (The New York Times). In the dark and uncertain days of 1941 and 1942, when Rommel’s Afrika Korps was sweeping toward ...
7 de nov. de 2022 · Born in 1915 in Perthshire, central Scotland, Archibald David Stirling was the son of Brigadier-General Archibald Stirling, and Margaret Fraser, whose father was the Lord Lovat Simon Fraser.
26 de may. de 2022 · Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the father of special forces soldiering.
David Stirling: The Phantom Major. Colonel David Stirling was a pioneer of British Special Forces. In 1941, he founded the Special Air Service (SAS) in Egypt to undertake small-scale raids behind enemy lines.
25 de may. de 2015 · David Stirling’s participation in World War Two ended in 1943 in what can only be described as an anti-climax. Captured by the Germans, he was imprisoned in Colditz Castle where he spent the rest of the war. David Stirling has been called “the most under-decorated soldier of the war”.
