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Willis Michael Sadler MC MM (22 February 1920 – 4 January 2024) was a British Army officer. He was the last original member of the Special Air Service and one of the last survivors of the Long Range Desert Group (survived by Jack Mann who also served in the LRDG).
- Travelling Through Enemy Territory
- A Narrow Escape
- “Have These Men Covered”
It was a long journey. In order to get there we had to take some extra Jeeps loaded with petrol cans and then leave them in the desert having removed any useful bits. We were to meet up with the French SAS unit south of the Gabes Gap. We drove through the Gabes Gap at night time, which was a nightmare. We suddenly found aeroplanes appearing around ...
Johnny Cooper and I were in sleeping bags and, first thing I knew, I was being kicked by somebody. I looked up and there was an Afrika Korps fellow poking me with his Schmeisser. Johnny and I and a Frenchman we’d been allotted from the Lake Chad party scarpered up the hillside. We got to the ridge more dead than alive and managed to hide in a littl...
We walked more than 100 miles and, of course, our shoes fell to bits. We arrived, staggering the last few steps towards the palm trees, and some African native troops came out and captured us. And there we were, in Tozeur. But they couldn’t keep us because we were in the American zone and they wouldn’t accept responsibility for us. So, later that s...
Oct 28, 2022 · Mike Sadler, 101, is the last surviving member of the original SAS and today tells the Mirror what it was like to fight in the desert with the unit, which was the idea of Scottish aristocrat...
Apr 17, 2024 · He seemed to possess a superhuman instinct for finding his way across hundreds of kilometres of towering sand dune seas, endless gravel plains, punishing mountains and sun-scorched rock formations, so much of which appeared to be the same. But not to Sadler, it seemed.
Jan 4, 2024 · Mike Sadler, who has died aged 103, was a former MI6 officer and an honorary member of “the Originals”, as men of L Detachment of the early SAS are known. He was believed to be the last...
- Telegraph Obituaries
Oct 28, 2022 · Tom will play Mike Sadler in the new BBC drama series SAS: Rogue Heroes, which was created by the brains behind Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight, and filmed in North Africa.
Jan 6, 2024 · But Mike Sadler was also an honorary SAS “Original”, the last survivor, having joined the elite regiment shortly after its creation by David Stirling.
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