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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).
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...
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Jan 6, 2024 · Mike Sadler in the SAS (Image: John Lawrence) Spending time with any surviving Second World War veteran is an immense privilege. But Alec Borrie, Jack Mann and Mike Sadler, who died...
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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...
Jan 5, 2024 · Mike Sadler, Old Bedalian (1933-37), who has died peacefully aged 103, was a decorated Second World War soldier and a founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS). He was an intrepid navigator, guiding Britain’s first special forces across the North African desert for hit-and-run raids on enemy bases. After the war he joined (what became ...
Jan 10, 2024 · Mike Sadler guided the first SAS raiders through the North African desert. The navigator and last of the SAS “Originals” died on January 5th, aged 103. Photograph: John Lawrence. Jan 10th...
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Jan 4, 2024 · Maj. Mike Sadler, a World War II navigator on the trackless Sahara of North Africa, who guided Britain’s first special forces across sand seas on daring behind-the-lines night raids that blew...
