Here is the first of four Special Air Service newsletters from the late 1940s pre Mars & Minerva. Brithm
Just looked through the first newsletter.....abundant reflections on those involved in SAS operations A mention of Major Roy Farran who had personal security problems arising from his service in Palestine. Then the account of the visit of Lt David Dill's mother, Mrs Oliver Thynne to his grave and those of his comrades at the Gaggenau town cemetery who were murdered as SAS pows at Gaggenau...now interred at Dunbach.A visit by Mrs Thynne to Moussey in the Vosges where 8 SAS rest in the village cemetery and a report of contact with French friends of the regiment who aided the SAS during the operations in the autumn of 1944 (There is a memorial in Moussey to the 200 or so villagers who were deported to Germany after the SAS operation in the Moussey area...cannot remember how many survived to return to France at the war end) I see that there is a reference to Chalky White reported at the time of driving a Colchester bus. Newsletter as these are a good source of historical information.....thanks for posting such interesting reading.
