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By Tim Jones
The covert, clandestine operations of the distinctive Air provider Regiment (SAS), from the jungles of Malaya, Borneo and Brunei to the deserts and mountains of the center East, were largely documented. There has continually been excessive fascination within the SAS, stoked by way of the regiment's "closed" association and secretive actions. yet no interval of task has remained extra mystery than the very important years after the second one global struggle whilst the regiment doubtless expired, merely to upward push miraculously from the lifeless to struggle Communism within the Malaya emergency. Tim Jones's interesting heritage items jointly the proof to teach that whereas the Malaya emergency re-established the SAS as a special resource of counter-guerilla services, the regiment lived on and used to be covertly occupied with the Greek Civil conflict of 1945-49, a battle unequalled in savagery until eventually the Bosnian clash within the Nineties.
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Indeed, on 12th. December, the Commission’s officers received new instructions in a “Directive on the Operation of Mobile Teams”. These were to be formed to carry out enquiries in Greek rural areas and to make on-the-spot payments of up to £50 for valid reparation claims. The Teams were to consist of one officer, one OR driver, and one “Interpreter/Clerk”, as “the bare minimum”. These designations imply that the SAS’s nine “Clerks” were to be used as interpreters in the Mobile Teams, along with the six SAS drivers and their officers.
Col. Collins’ May 1945 memorandum). 4 But he was not the last commander of the 1st. SAS in 1945. -Col. Mayne’s deputy in the 1st. SAS was Major Harry Wall Poat. He had fought with the Regiment in Tunisia and Sicily during 1943, A LIFE-LINE: GREECE 35 before taking up his post as Mayne’s aide in 1944. Poat went on to fight along the Rhine in Operation Archway during March and April 1945. -Col. Franks. Before returning to civilian life “growing tomatoes in Guernsey”,5 Harry Poat was drawn into Calvert and Franks’ scheme to keep at least part of the SAS going.
SAS. Over and above the SAS officers attached to the Commission in November and December 1945 who had “Posting Orders Awaited”, an ASC(G) Field Return of Other Ranks for the week ending on 1st. December 1945, as well 44 SAS: THE FIRST SECRET WARS as those for the rest of the month, incorporate a separate list of men with an identical distinction that “Posting Orders [were] Awaited” for them. They were four “Serjeants”, two Lance-Serjeants, two Lance-Corporals, and one Private, all of whose function was listed simply as “Clerk”, along with another six Privates who were classed as “Driver/Batman”.