The Irish SAS legend

Soldier, rugby star, lawyer, amateur boxer and founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS), Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair 'Paddy' Mayne became one of the British Army's most highly decorated soldiers and was controversially denied the VC. He was also a rogue, a troubled young man and would die at just 40 years of age in a car crash after surviving numerous dangerous missions throughout the Second World War. His story is brilliantly told in author Damien Lewis’ latest book: ‘SAS Brothers In Arms' which describes how these ‘rough diamonds’ answered Churchill’s call for volunteers to go deep behind enemy lines in North Africa.

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