[…] had spent 23 years in the British Army, much of it in Northern Ireland. Can anybody supply more information on either of these two people? And the Fijian SAS? GETTING WPR WPR is monthly, average so far 10 sides of A4. Send 25 dollars New Zealand (or equivalent) to WPR, Box 9314, Wellington, New Zealand.
Web update Jane Affleck Thanks to Terry Hanstock and David Turner for contributions. Comments and details of interesting websites are welcome: my email address is 101521.3515 @compuserve.com Freedom Of Information Campaign for Freedom of Information http://www.cfoi.org.uk ‘The Campaign for Freedom of Information campaigns against unnecessary secrecy and for greater public access to official and other […]
[…] SPARROWE CMG (1968), OBE (60) B 5.3.18 MAGDALEN COLL OXFORD, TRAVELLERS MI6 (‘C’ RICHARD DEACON. LONDON 1985) COLLEAGUE OF OLDFIELD 1940-3 OXFORD AND BUCKS LIGHT INFANTRY 1944-46 SAS 2ND REGT (CAPT) 1947 FO 1950 2ND SEC ISTANBUL 1954 FO 1956 CONSUL ZURICH 1960 1ST SEC ATHENS 1964 FO 1968 COUNSELLOR PARIS 1972 RETIRED, THEOLOGICAL […]
[…] letters but I got a corker after Lobster 34. The anonymous and abusive author pointed out that in my review of the John Newsinger book on the SAS I had written that in Gulf War 1: ‘All Britain could muster was one tank regiment and a handful of Tornado aircraft which crashed with alarming […]
[…] Secret Kingdom http://www.cc.umist.ac.uk/sk/index.html ‘An initiation into the very real world of some of the more secretive government and military organisations in the UK.’ e.g. MI5, MI6, GCHQ, SAS, SBS, others. Basic stuff but all we have at the moment; and links e.g. to Mossad, Seals, Green Berets, Special Forces and counter-terrorism site. Unofficial NSA […]
[…] of an article arguing for an aggressive, expansionist British military posture (‘an extrovert defence policy’). This is apparently known as ‘horizon stretching’ in Whitehall. Sandhurst and the SAS go world-wide! The Belgrano business Bob Woodward (of Woodstein fame) quoted in the Observer (24 Feb. 1985) on the Belgrano business: “It’s pretty obvious that the […]
[…] 203 464 2282 Ben Hoitsma 274 8786 Hitchiner 203 765 2331 Joe Hanmer 313 581 1665 Otto Hoeller 203 324 6118 Cybil Gernintov 233 3836 Ralph Hanson SAS 612 647 0500 Howmet Bill Ganci 361 0300 Howmedica 935 2100 Jim Hamill 202 332 2827 Hoffman La Roche 235 4248 Geo Hadad Universal Bank 21798 […]
[…] Solicitor General in Alberta in the 1970s and later Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Farran was an authentic war hero, serving in the SAS during the Second World War. He was, as Cesarani shows, very much ‘a child of empire’, someone ‘raised to be an imperial warrior’. It has to […]
[…] in the South African Army. Another UDR man who died in Southern Africa was John McLaurin, from Belfast. He moved to South Africa before joining the Rhodesian SAS in 1979. He died a few weeks later in another mysterious explosion. (Phoenix 18 March 1983) See Lobsters 1 / 3 / 4 for previous Kincora […]
[…] Simon Matthews wrote this of Fraser, who with Thatcher, challenged Heath for the leadership of the Tory Party in 1975: ‘The emergence of Fraser – a war-time SAS colleague of Clermont member David Stirling – was curious, as neither prior to this event nor subsequently, did he demonstrate any interest in being leader of […]
