Last of 戦時 SAS '初めのs' dies: Ex-MI6 officer who won 軍の Cross and was last 生き残るing member of famous L Detachment - and even had a piece of the 南極の 指名するd after him - passes away 老年の 103
- Major マイク Sadler was 新採用するd by SAS 創立者 David Stirling
- He fought in North Africa before 存在 パラシュート（で降下する）d into Nazi-占領するd フラン?
The last 生き残るing member of the 初めの 戦時 SAS has died 老年の 103.
Major マイク Sadler was 新採用するd by David Stirling, the 創立者 of the British Army's エリート Special 空気／公表する Service 連隊, which was formed in 1941.?
He 最初 took part in night-time （警察の）手入れ，急襲s against Axis 離着陸場s in Libya before 存在?パラシュート（で降下する）d into Nazi-占領するd フラン?after the D-Day Normandy 上陸s in 1944.
He was awarded the 軍の Cross for his 活動／戦闘s in フラン, later served in MI6 and even had a piece of the 南極の 指名するd after him.?
In 2018, he was その上の recognised with フラン's highest honour - the Legion d'honneur.?
Historian Damien 吊りくさび, who has penned several 調書をとる／予約するs on the 戦時 history of the SAS, paid 尊敬の印 to the hero, telling MailOnline: 'マイク Sadler was one of the 初めのs and one of the bravest of the 勇敢に立ち向かう and we now no longer have any 生き残るing members of 1 SAS from the war.?
'So this is the passing of a legend, the passing of a 世代, the passing of an 時代. It is immensely 悲劇の because our ability to 逮捕（する） these stories from first 手渡す 証言 is becoming so difficult. The lights are going out all over Britain.'?
Major マイク Sadler was 新採用するd by David Stirling, the 創立者 of the British Army's エリート Special 空気／公表する Service 連隊, which was formed in 1941?
Major Sadler left school in 1937 to work on a farm in Southern Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe.
After war broke out in 1939, Major Sadler joined the Rhodesian Army 大砲 部隊.
By 1941 he had been made a sergeant but ended up 存在 demoted when he 辞退するd a 命令（する）ing officer's order for his men to wear boots instead of sand sh oes when sleeping.?
He then met a member of the Long 範囲 砂漠 Group,?a 偵察 部隊 based in the North African 砂漠.
The 兵士 説得するd him to join and quickly took up the 役割 of 航海士. Soon, he was in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of 航海 for both the LRDG and SAS.
In December 1941, Major Sadler was part of the first successful SAS （警察の）手入れ，急襲 - on Wadi Tamet 離着陸場 - where a team of six men 廃虚d 24 航空機 and a 燃料 捨てる.
This was led by 中尉／大尉／警部補 Blair '米，稲' Mayne, a former Irish international rugby 星／主役にする who would become one of Britain's most decorated 兵士s.
Major Sadler fought with the SAS in Italy and フラン に引き続いて his time in the 砂漠 war, before setting up the SAS 知能 部隊.
On August 7, 1944, Major Sadler was dropped by パラシュート（で降下する） into the Loire as part of 操作／手術 Houndsworth.
The 目的（とする） was to reach SAS 騎兵大隊s behind the lines and help destroy 燃料 倉庫・駅s, encourage 地元の 抵抗, and 妨げる Panzer 分割s 長，率いるing north.
By this time Hitler had given 指示／教授／教育s for any 逮捕（する）d parachutists to be 遂行する／発効させるd.
Germans struck the two-jeep 軍用車隊 with Major Sadler returning 解雇する／砲火／射撃, 許すing the other jeep to 逃げる before escaping himself. He was later awarded the 軍の Cross for gallantry.
Those who formed L Detachment SAS 指名するd themselves 'the 初めのs', with Major Sadler 存在 considered an 名誉として与えられる one.
He was given the 役割 of 中尉／大尉／警部補 by Stirling but this was 報道によれば never told to the 当局 so Major Sadler finished the war as a major.
Major Sadler (left) 最初 took part in night-time （警察の）手入れ，急襲s against Axis 離着陸場s in Libya before 存在 パラシュート（で降下する）d into Nazi-占領するd フラン after the D-Day Normandy 上陸s in 1944
On the night of July 26, 1942, Major Sadler, without headlights or a 地図／計画する, guided 18 jeeps filled with twin Vickers K machine guns along 70 miles of 砂漠 to within 200 feet of Sidi Haneish 離着陸場.
The group then opened 解雇する／砲火／射撃 as they drove between 計画（する）s, 難破させるing at least 37 航空機. But one of the SAS jeep drivers was sadly 発射 through the 長，率いる during the attack and buried in the sand.
'I do remember the people who didn't 生き残る, and who didn't have the chance to receive this 広大な／多数の／重要な honour,' Major Sadler said after he was given the Legion d'honneur.
He was awarded the 軍の メダル for the Tamit and Sidi Haneish attacks.
Major Sadler was also one of the officers to follow Stirling on the last SAS 操作／手術 during the 砂漠 war in January 1943.
This 伴う／関わるd trying to cross the Tunisian 砂漠 to 会合，会う the British-American 1st Army but they were 待ち伏せ／迎撃するd by a German 部隊.
Stirling was 逮捕（する）d and would spend the 残り／休憩（する） of the Second World War as a 囚人 of war in Colditz.
Major Sadler managed to escape along with another SAS 兵士 and an Arabic-speaking Frenchman.
He guided the group on a five-day, 100-mile trek, without a 地図／計画する, or any food 準備／条項s, to link up with the 1st Army.
American war 特派員 A J Liebling 証言，証人／目撃するd Mr Sadler as he arrived from the 砂漠, and wrote: 'The 注目する，もくろむs of this fellow were 一連の会議、交渉／完成する and sky blue and his hair and whiskers were very fair.
'His 耐えるd began 井戸／弁護士席 under his chin, giving him the 空気／公表する of an emaciated and わずかに dotty Paul Verlaine.'
When the SAS were 解散するd at the end of the war, Major Sadler left the army and 調印するd up with the Falkland Islands dependency's 南極の 調査する.?
He was awarded the Polar メダル for his 成果／努力s.
The 兵士 then spent two years working at the American 大使館 in London before 存在 新採用するd by MI6. He said little about his time with the Secret 知能 Service, 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 the fact that it 許すd him to indulge his love of sailing.
He retired in 1984 and spent his later years at a 退職 home 近づく Cambridge.??
After the war Major Sadler married Anne Hetherington, but the union was 解散させるd after two years.
In 195 8, he married Pat Benson, who died in 2001. He is 生き残るd by their daughter Sally.?
Major Sadler was portrayed by Tom Glynn-Carney in the BBC's 攻撃する，衝突する series SAS: Rogue Heroes, which 空気／公表するd in 2022.?
