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The word legend is thrown about far too much. But Mike Sadler is one - what a life.

He was a living legend, and like all great legends, his name, memory, & story will live on for generations upon generations. 😊

RIP Major Sadler. Your legacy will live on for generations. The LRDG are back together once more…❤️

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Was he a labour or a tory in his youth?

@@mverick5444 what's that got to do with it ?

Bollocks! They had one of the original SAS there. Ask him how he strangles Italians with their own Urethra! Or how to blow up a Nazi with a Cheetah! FFs these vague platitudes.... Ask him what made him be there and what he actually did!

@@alanjones6359 I was wondering about his political leanings

Do not worry, when you grow old, there will be plenty of veterans of WW3, I just pray I will live to an old age when I am forcefully conscripted to fight on whatever side they throw me in and tell the future generations to never trust a country run by rich people.

Because they were no Influencers , not like today 😖😖😖😖

I'm from Newtownards and Robert Paddy Blair Main was their best warrior he's highly revered and was a true Patriot and loyalist played For the British lions and Boxing champion and went to Queen's university in Belfast not only did he take out more aircraft than the best fighter pilots of world war 2 he also took the main gun turret that would have prevented the landings of Sicily Italy and diffied the top brass he stole a plane parachuted out playing lilly Marlene his favourite tunes 100 SAS were murdered he was a prestigious drinker and would pick a fight with anyone Robert Paddy Blair Main was first in command because Stirling was locked up in Coldits for years he stole a Jeep and the Germans thought that they were under a more heavy attack only to go home to Ards and got Pissed up and crashed his car by the Knights Bridge Pub at Scrabbo where I want my ashes scattered he's buried in Movilla cemetery with his family he's still not been awarded the VC he should have it post humus award for Bravery the Victoria Cross

I don't think any man ever tamed Paddy Blair Mayne. Work with him, get him onboard - yes, but Mayne was that primal rogue force that the SAS are all about.

dead right mate paddy mane hero off mine

No one mentions the LRDG though. Nor the SBS operating in the Adriatic.

@@michaeldoolan7595 the LRDG played a major part in the success of the SAS.a derogatory but friendly term used by the SAS was the Libyan Taxi Service. A name that the The LRDG were happy to be called. The LRDG had some very successful actions in their own right and with out the LRDG the SAS would not have gained the experience that Mike Sadler brought them.Mike gained a lot of knowledge from being a member of the LRDG

@@philleeson7835 agreed

french contributions are often ignored unfortunately, coming from a englishman you should be proud!

@jonathanhicks totally right the looks were uncanny. I loved the series and yes there is some artistic license but when you hear a relative saying it was spot on that's good enough for me. They left it open for another series, I hope they follow that up when they went to Italy. Legends the lot of them

I thought the same and the actor that played Paddy Mayne apart from the fact that the real Paddy Mayne was taller at about 6'2".

Have you read The men who made the SAS by Gavin Mortimer

It was such a delight seeing his character appear on screen and going “Gosh that’s got to be Mike Sadler, he looks just like him”

Do you know if he voted tory or labour in his youth?

@@mverick5444 What difference do politics make when the bullets are flying on a battlefield? All that matters is that their all comrades in arms looking after each others backs.

Totally agree!

sports stars are not "Heroes" just overpaid numpties. Mr Sadler I salute you, you are a proper Hero !

@@mverick5444 how is that relevant? His politics never came up in any converstation.

I wonder what that would be to the equivalent to the US? Silver Star? Bronze Star? Not doubting the man had some BA11’s , I’m just curious.

@@2410jrod Good question and, to be honest, I don't know. In the current UK (post-1993) military awards & decorations structure the Military Cross is a Level 3A Decoration while the Military Medal is a Level 3B Medal - but I believe they were ranked higher before the introduction of the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross (in 1993). During WW2, the M.C. was only awarded to officers/warrant officers while the M.M. was awarded to other ranks (for equivalent actions) so he must have risen from the ranks. The gallantry medal structure in the British Army in WW2 would have gone: (1) Victoria Cross; (2) Distinguished Service Order (Officers)/ Distinguished Conduct Medal (Other Ranks); (3) Military Cross (Officers) / Military Medal (Other Ranks). The criteria for the M.C. & M.M. were as follows: M.C. "an act or acts of exemplary gallantry during active operations against the enemy on land", and M.M.: "acts of gallantry and devotion to duty under fire". I don't know how the U.S. awards are structured, so I can't say what they equivalent to, but I hope this helps.

@@douglasherron7534 I did some homework on my downtime. It looks like if it was the U.S. it’s like the equivalent of a Silver Star and Bronze Star. However, you don’t need them to see that he’s a soldier worth his salt and then some.

A true Hero ❣️

I binged it in 2 nights and wanted more 👍

@@jive091 Me too!

It's not about him dope.

Sadly, the country has turned it's back on Almighty God.

Deserves a Knight hood

And most don't live one.

It’s good to read an accurate account as opposed to an account presented to appeal to a tv or film audience. We now know that much of SAS activities were forewarned to the Axis by the use of a broken code by Maj Bonner Fellers , the US military attaché in Egypt, in his detailed reports back to Washington…..and that will not be mentioned by the BBC.

Yes, LRDG is often overlooked - Their role was payed well in the series, but could have got a better mention

This, I’m currently re-reading Gavin Mortimers book on the LRDG, they were nothing short of amazing. Huge respect to your grandfather, the achievements they made are legend.

@@beaso63 Totally agree. LRDG (or LRDP as they were originally called) wrote the play book for disruptive hit and run missions behind enemy lines in North Africa. They built there own supply drops, LUP's etc. Acknowledgement of the role LRDG played in North Africa needs to come out of the shadows and be formally recognised as the first of the greats.

What does LRDG stand for? Was they commandos?

It’s a skill, just like mental arithmetic. We haven’t always had sat nav, or calculators, and yet we have people who could navigate without them, like Mike Sadler, and Shackleton’s men getting to South Georgia from the Antarctic in an open boat, by dead reckoning alone, as well as people whose mental faculties are still sharp enough to do their shopping bill in their head before the till rings it up.

id say the single most important and irreplacable person in that group...his navigation skills were simply too valuable

They were first cousins. The 15th Lord Lovat's name was Simon Fraser. Stirling's mother was a Fraser.

And Paddy Maine should receive a posthumous VC

Did David Stirling and Lord Lovat fight in WW1? Surely they was too young at the time.

Why bother stating that you're an Englishman, and why make a point of the Scottish connection? Bore off.

@Enigma man They would have made appaling Gennerals. Both were very good at small units doing irregular warfare. They would have been a disaster trying to manage a huge regular army. Horses for courses.

Bagpipes were not banned by the army, each Scottish and Irish regiments had pipe bands since the late eighteenth century.

@@chrismacpherson7230 I think you have missed the point, playing the pipes going into battle was banned, of course regiments have pipe bands!

Better than 10 series 27 episodes per series like in America. Short sharp irreverent and fantastic. Great soundtrack too.

Luckily Steven Knight wants there to be 3/4 seasons because there is so much story to tell, hopefully s2 gets greenlit

I hope the WORLD shows more respect when the last WW2 Soldier dies than it did for the last WW1 Bloke.

True.. Very True

Is there going to be another season? Stirling's input ends there so be interesting to see how it changes.