Guess the picture quiz!

[Jerry B]

Nice pic !!! On left, Col Rhys-Corwen ??? No 1 Special Services Regiment, The Greys ????

Not according to the info I have. He was probably the greatest of all the WWII SAS members and was a renowned nutter! The other was also very famous and I was reading about an incident today where he insisted on being given parachute training and took his first jump all in one day and broke his back. He had previously been famous for his involvement on Crete. Probably too many clues.

[Totenhead]

You talking about Lieutenant John Randall Jerry ???

[davejb]

Paddy Mayne and possibly George Jellicoe later to become Lord Jellicoe

[Totenhead]

Paddy Mayne, thats who i meant !!!

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Are you sure thats Paddy? Whats his shoulder title say ???

[Jerry B]

Paddy Mayne on the left, but who is the other?

[Totenhead]

This is the picture i have:

Col Rhys-Corwen (Centre) with members of 1 SAS in 1944. Just visible is the WALES shoulder title and the SAS style cap badge with dragon backing on his Grey Beret











Originally a Light Infantry Regiment, the Greys were disbanded in 1935. They became the Army’s first SF unit in 1941. Its creator, Colonel Iwan Rhys-Corwen a former CO of the Greys when it had been an infantry unit, saw how the irregular fighters of 1940 had created havoc with the Whermacht during the period of chaos that was the ‘occupation’. His friend David Stirling of the British Army, instrumental in creating the SAS, held many of the same ideas and beliefs. As Rhys-Corwen deployed with the Welsh Expeditionery Brigade to North Africa the pair met up again and the G (for Greys) Troop was born over numerous Gin and Tonics in the Savoy bar, Cairo.

[davejb]

The SAS beret is not grey its a Pompadour blue it just looks grey in B/W photos

[Totenhead]

I know its not grey. What does the shoulder title say in the picture ??

[Totenhead]

lol, ignore my previous posts !!! oh dear........just made a fool of myself !!!

Fell for this rubbish !!! wont live this down now !

Welsh Military Special Forces Units (Welsh History Post Glyndwr) - Alternative History

[Jerry B]

I looked on 3 sites and all list it as being Paddy Mayne. Who is the other officer who was also very famous?