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Initially joining the Special Operations Executive, he would go on to command No. 62 Commando and then the 2nd Special Air Service (2 SAS). He was the elder brother of David Stirling, one of the founders of the SAS, but Bill has been described as the "real brains behind the operation". [1]
Gustavus Henry March-Phillipps, DSO, MBE (1908 – 12 September 1942; sometimes spelled "March-Phillips" [1]) was the founder of the British Army's No. 62 Commando, also known as Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF), one of the forerunners of the Special Air Service (SAS).
In early 1943, No. 62 Commando was disbanded, and its members were dispersed among other formations. Lassen was among a number who went to the Middle East to serve in the Special Boat Section, then attached to the Special Air Service. [5] Others joined the 2nd SAS under the command of Bill Stirling (1911-1983), elder brother of David Stirling. [6]
No. 62 Commando or the Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) was a British Commando unit of the British Army during the Second World War. The unit was formed around a small group of commandos under the command of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). They carried out a number of raids before being disbanded in 1943.
SAS No. 119, Supplementary Information in Relation to the Financial Statements as a Whole (issued February 2010); and; SAS No. 120, Required Supplementary Information (issued February 2010). SAS No. 122 also withdraws SAS No. 26, Association With Financial Statements, as amended. The AICPA is the source of the most up-to-date information.
The SAS had been informed of the attack and 24 men waited in ambush positions around and inside the police station. They opened fire when the armed IRA unit approached the station with a 200 pounds (91 kg) bomb, its fuse lit, in the bucket of a hijacked JCB digger. A civilian passing the incident was also killed by SAS fire. [62]
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The SAS has a subunit called the Counter Terrorist Wing (CTW) that fulfils its counterterrorism (CT) role. [112] It has previously been known as the Counter Revolutionary Warfare (CRW) Wing [113] and special projects team. [114] [115] The SAS receives aviation support from No. 658 Squadron AAC to carry out their CT role. [116]