VCs, my admiration for Mayne’s gallantry has no bounds. I particularly admire his ‘cold courage’ – he knew the dangers yet repeatedly confronted them.
So in the week of Remembrance Day, it is appropriate to recall the extraordinary life and career of a man who became synonymous with the SAS following its formation in 1941.Robert Blair Mayne was born in Newtownards, to a prosperous middle-class Protestant family on 11 January 1915.
The son of a businessman, Blair (as he was known) was the second youngest of seven children – four boys and three girls.When he was born, the Great War was five months old and Ireland had not yet been partitioned – but the country of his birth was anything but united and the Easter Rising was only 15 months.
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