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Commando, had shot Mayne's pet dog while Mayne had been away. Mayne was attached to his pet, and was furious about this. Keyes' diary records that, on the evening of 21 June, after drinking heavily in the mess, Mayne waited by Napier's tent and assaulted him when he returned. Keyes also records in his diary that Mayne was dismissed from 11 Commando the following day, 23 June, but does not say that he was arrested.
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683:. During the next few weeks, he successfully penetrated the German and American lines on four occasions in order to lead parties of reinforcements. It was entirely due to Lt-Col.Mayne's fine leadership and example, and his utter disregard for danger, that the unit was able to achieve such striking successes.
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Keyes' diary makes it clear that Mayne was brought before the divisional commander, Brigadier
Rodwell, on 23 June, for assaulting Napier, the second-in-command of his battalion. Mayne had a grudge against Napier, who had not taken part in the Litani raid, and who, according to a serving member of 11
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Mayne is also described as growing increasingly withdrawn as the war progressed, preferring books to the company of friends. This tendency was said to have become more marked after the death of his father during the Second World War. Mayne was refused leave to attend the funeral and a story has him
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In early 1939, Mayne graduated from Queen's and joined George
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This House recognises the grave injustice meted out to Lt Col Paddy Mayne, of 1st SAS, who won the
Victoria Cross at Oldenburg in North West Germany on 9th April 1945; notes that this was subsequently downgraded, some six months later, to a third bar DSO, that the citation had been clearly altered
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on the evening of 21 June 1941, the date on which Mayne was accused of beating up a fellow officer, Major
Charles Napier. Keyes had stayed the night elsewhere, and arrived at Salamis the following day, 22 June 1941, when the trouble was already over. Keyes states in his diary that he conducted an
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Victoria Cross; and therefore calls upon the Government to mark these anniversaries by instructing the appropriate authorities to act without delay to reinstate the Victoria Cross given for exceptional personal courage and leadership of the highest order and to acknowledge that
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and sow disorganisation among the enemy was due to his "brilliant military leadership and cool calculating courage" and a "single act of bravery" which "drove the enemy from a strongly held key village thereby breaking the crust of the enemy defences in the whole of this sector." However, in a
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His first successful raid at Wadi Tamet on 14 December 1941, where aircraft and petrol dumps were destroyed, helped keep the SAS in existence, following the failure of the previous initial raid behind enemy lines. For his part in the Tamet raid Mayne was awarded the
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Victoria Cross had 'so strangely eluded him'; further notes that on 14th December it will be 50 years since Col Mayne's untimely death, in a car accident, and this will be followed on 29th January 2006 by the 150th anniversary of the signing of the
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Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Norway, often campaigning alongside local resistance fighters including the French
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newspaper stated Mayne was "outstanding in a pack which gamely and untiringly stood up to the tremendous task". He played in seventeen of the twenty provincial matches and in all three tests. On returning from South Africa, he joined
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is in direct contrast to O'Loughlin's exuberance, appears on the slow side, but he covers the ground at an extraordinary speed for a man of his build, as many a three quarter and full back have discovered."
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Mayne's contemporaries questioned why he was not awarded a
Victoria Cross. The matter came to a head when, after a public campaign, the issue of a posthumous award was brought before the UK Parliament. An
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family. The Maynes were prominent landowners who owned several retail businesses in the town. He was named Robert Blair after a second cousin, who at the time of his birth was a
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standard practice of the time, the award was downgraded to a lesser award, and Mayne instead received a third bar to the DSO (in other words, a fourth award of the DSO).
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to conduct surprise hit-and-run raids, particularly on Axis airfields. It was claimed that he had personally destroyed up to 100 aircraft.
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became evident, and he played for the school 1st XV and also the local
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SAS: The History of the Special Raiding Squadron "Paddy's Men"
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Stirling's Men: The Inside History of the SAS in World War II
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Rogue Warrior of the S.A.S.: Lt.Col.Paddy Blair Mayne, D.S.O
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British & Irish Lions rugby union players from Ireland
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Cooper, Geoff (2021). "Re-discovering the Forgotten Fid".
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Irish Masonic History and the Jewels of Irish Freemasonry
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embarking on a drinking binge and rampage in central
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Irish rugby union player, lawyer, boxer, and soldier
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War Years Remembered Museum, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim
725:The success of his mission to clear a path for the
1780:"Lt Col. Robert Blair 'Paddy' Mayne DSO Freemason"
1610:SAS Heroes: Remarkable Soldiers, Extraordinary Men
1508:(Supplement). 19 October 1943. pp. 4661–4662.
1157:SAS in Italy 1943-1945: Raiders in Enemy Territory
687:During the course of the war he became one of the
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1130:Rogue Warrior of the SAS: The Blair Mayne Legend
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1985:The Regiment: The Definitive Story of the SAS
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1663:(Robin Brass Studio Inc, Toronto, ON, 2006)
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1635:"Early Day Motion 317: Lt Col Paddy Mayne"
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2023:Colonel Paddy: The Man Who Dared
1478:. Helion, Limited. p. 234.
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1057:Officer of the Legion of Honour
827:Law Society of Northern Ireland
802:as deputy to expedition leader
404:While at university he took up
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2164:Queen's University RFC players
1562:. The Irish Times. 2 June 2017
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1266:Bull, Andy (15 June 2013).
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217:Distinguished Service Order
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2006:. John Murray Publishers.
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714:, commander of the Allied
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501:No. 11 (Scottish) Commando
473:, being posted to 5 Light
395:Queen's University Belfast
252:Queen's University Belfast
172:Battle of the Litani River
93:Newtownards, County Down,
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2040:McClean, Stewart (2005).
1720:"Blair Mayne Association"
1613:. Bloomsbury Publishing.
1133:. Mainstream Publishing.
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1154:Tudor, Malcolm (2018).
1117:, 'Special Air Service'
1036:Mentioned in Dispatches
1000:France and Germany Star
936:29 March 1945 (2nd Bar)
621:(the forerunner of the
431:lost the first test, a
362:officer serving in the
313:British and Irish Lions
226:Mentioned in Despatches
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1607:Scholey, Pete (2011).
1391:. National Army Museum
1091:List of SAS operations
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2101:. Sutton Publishing.
2097:Ross, Hamish (2003).
2025:. Colourpoint Books.
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1858:Ross, Hamish (2011).
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467:Supplementary Reserve
189:Operation Houndsworth
125:Years of service
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1755:"Robert Blair Mayne"
1730:on 10 September 2011
885:Royal Irish Regiment
623:Special Boat Service
619:Special Boat Section
1837:The Daily Telegraph
1205:"Our Famous Member"
1032:War Medal 1939–1945
560:SAS – 1941 and 1942
537:Special Air Service
527:Transfer to the SAS
517:Vichy French Forces
486:Royal Ulster Rifles
461:Initial assignments
411:Mayne's first full
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148:Special Air Service
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1811:. 14 November 2020
1545:The London Gazette
1525:The London Gazette
1505:The London Gazette
1436:The London Gazette
1416:The London Gazette
1325:The London Gazette
1207:. Scrabo Golf Club
1190:The London Gazette
1160:. Fonthill Media.
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912:Honours and awards
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735:Sir Robert Laycock
712:Bernard Montgomery
656:commanding officer
652:lieutenant colonel
613:Commanding officer
497:Dunkirk evacuation
446:Ellis Park Stadium
283:Robert Blair Mayne
280:Lieutenant Colonel
184:Operation Overlord
137:Lieutenant Colonel
25:Robert Blair Mayne
1892:. 4 February 2020
1485:978-1-912174-63-8
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681:Operation WALLACE
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