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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, DSO & Three Bars (11 January 1915 – 14 December 1955), best known as Paddy Mayne or familiarly as Blair, was a British Army officer from Newtownards. He was an amateur boxing champion , qualified as a solicitor and was capped for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions at rugby union before becoming a ...
After being denied leave to attend the funeral of his father, Paddy Mayne is arrested for fighting with military police at an upmarket Cairo restaurant. Later, David Stirling's older brother Lieutenant Colonel Bill Stirling offers to help Mayne save the Special Air Service from dissolution.
After Stirling's capture, the SAS was led by Paddy Mayne until the end of the Second World War. When Mayne was recruited to the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, Sadler joined the crew of the MV Trepassey, led by Edward W. Bingham, on a British expedition to Antarctica. [4]
Operation Howard was a British special forces operation by B and C Squadrons, 1st Special Air Service led by Paddy Mayne that took place from 6 to 29 April 1945. It was to provide reconnaissance for the Canadian 4th Armoured Division in its advance towards Oldenburg in north-western Germany.
Paddy Mayne, Irish soldier, co-founder of the Special Air Service, recipient of the Distinguished Service Order and Legion of Honour; as Robert Blair Mayne, in Newtownards, Ireland (d. 1955 ) [ citation needed ]
Paddy Mayne placed a bomb in the engine of a parked bomber before withdrawing. [11] The raiders destroyed or damaged around 40 Luftwaffe aircraft, though the SAS claimed 25 as it was customary to under-report Axis losses.
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).
Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne, SAS co-founder, was born and lived in Newtownards and attended Regent House Grammar School. A bronze statue of him stands outside the town hall. He played rugby for Ireland and for the Lions in the 1938 British Lions tour to South Africa. [51] Barry McClements, Commonwealth Games para swimming medallist [52]