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R.I.P. Dave

RIP Dave

RIP Dave. 

R.I.P. Dave

Did any one know this guy

Martin (Matt) Udy who died on the 7th January 2025 aged 85. Matt, a former Scots Guard served with G Squadron 22 SAS and as a PSI with 23 SAS between 1966 and 1982.

Don't know the lad Jack but it sounds like he's had an interesting life. So RIP Matt.

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R.I.P.

Reading the obituaries in Mars * Minerva

Mike Sadler one of the originals (103) navigating over 70 miles across the desert using astro navigation taking the LRDG within a mile of the required location. When Stirling was captured Mike and two others walked 100 miles without food and water to allied lines. Later in he worked for MI6

Bronco Lane MM BEM (78)  ex 7 RHA nearly died on Mount Everest. On return to the UK  the boys drank in together in the Booth hotel they had escaped Hereford hospital in their

Wheel chairs Brummie heard someone taking the Mick out of Bronco who was not a man to get riled Brummie wheeled over and floored the guy then they continued drinking.  He earned the MM in Nth Ireland in gun battles having once been wounded. Involved down south he went to Chile. On operation Nimrod in London his task was drawing the curtains back in the morning and closing them at night. 1984 he became RSM and later commissioned as a Major. After leaving the army he appeared out of the back of a C130 in Bosnia taking supplies to Tuzla Bronco had hitched a ride his intentions to cycle back to the UK. One of the team there bundled him back on the aircraft and he continued from Italy.

Col Derek Wilford

Co 1 Para 1972 Bloody Sunday. Malay emergency 1952,EOKA 1960, 22 SAS Malaya,D Coy 2 Para.  (91)

Pete Mcaleese  (81) when he was a young ad in Glasgow he followed a paras soldier for hours , after a while the guy told him to *off .”The Red Beret Pete watched the film 17 times.

He joined the Parachute Regt at 17. 1962 he joined 16 Troop D Sqn on ops to Borneo and Aden. Pete was RTU’d twice for fighting one was at Fort Bragg he smacked a SF Sgt for blowing smoke in his face, the second fighting a French Para , he was also know as a wife beater (twice divorced). He was involved with Angola, Rhodesian bush war. Operation Phoenix  ( Pablo Escobar) eventually being rescued he described his body as 200lbs of chewed bubble gum.

Danny The Ditch (Southern Ireland)

Tawi Atair (1971) Danny set the Jeble on fire with his GPMG no problems until the wind changed it came over his sanger igniting ank links that had been mislaid. The second the two Irishmen Grisly (9 Sqn) selected a bad position with hard rock under them Danny sent a message for a beehive which blew up their sanger.  The sanger had a wall between them so they could talk to each other aft5er one attack Grisly asked he could get in with Danny (get ed)

John Scouse Thompson (82)

Op Nimrod and Op Corporate Enlisted in REME 16 Para Bde (1962)transferred to RAOC brief spell in South Korea Chief clerk (22) asked to re badge  at 36 years old 1972. Down south he was in 23 Troop G Sqn. Leaving the army nhe joined the Royal Oman police (special task force)

Lt Col Robin Betts MC  (84)

1^st Royal green Jackets Borneo 1965 with D Sqn.  Taff Springle my PSI 21  was in his patrol. Vietnam with the SASR 1969

Good read I liked that !

Good info Jack.