The raid on the Iranian embassy in 1980 was a triumph for Margaret Thatcher and hugely significant for her career and political status. Here, Peter Winner, one of the leaders of the raid, talks about the SAS's relationship with Thatcher and what she meant to the regiment. Above : Original privately commissioned oil painting by Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman of SAS Medic Tommy Tobin, DCM, who fought in Operation Storm during The Battle of Mirbat , Oman.

They’re fine as far as they go, but they can’t tell it like a front-line para – or Toms as we call ourselves – and they haven’t told the whole story. But I can. I was there. Bravo Two Zero patrol members. From left to right: Ryan, Consiglio, MacGown (obscured), Lane, Coburn (obscured), McNab (obscured), Phillips, Pring (obscured).Find sources: "List of former Special Air Service personnel"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( August 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

All that mattered was that there was no edge of alarm in their voices; no hint they’d heard anything. I didn’t need Spanish to know they hadn’t rumbled us. Trooper Robert (Bob) Gaspare Consiglio, MM ( posthumous) former Royal Marine or Parachute Regiment. Killed in action, 27 January 1991. Ironically, it turned out later that the Argy high command thought the bulletins were a double bluff, designed to wrong-foot them. Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls - Man vs. Wild, Motivational Speaker, former SAS, World record holder, Chief scoutSurprisingly, no one seemed to be manning the gun pointing straight up my nose. What was going on in that trench? Better take a closer look. NOW HERE ON DISPLAY AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION SAS “WHO DARES WINS” EXHIBITION AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL . Above : Original privately commissioned oil painting by Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman of Lance Corporal Roger Cole who fought in Operation Storm during The Battle of Mirbat , Oman. FROM LEFT : PETE “SNAPPER” WINNER AND ANDY McNAB PICTURED TOGETHER AT AN EVENING WITH ANDY McNAB EVENT AT THE CHEPSTOW DRILL HALL.

SAS “WHO DARES WINS” AND UK SPECIAL FORCES EXHIBITION HERE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION , LITTLEDEAN JAIL , UK Above : Original privately commissioned oil painting by Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman of Captain Mike Kealy, who was the Commanding Officer who fought in Operation Storm during The Battle of Mirbat , Oman. ABOVE AND BELOW : COPIES OF THE ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY PAUL BRIDGMAN ON DISPLAY AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION , LITTLEDEAN JAIL. The dirty devils had not dug latrines, they’d just walked out of their trenches and fouled the ground in front of their own positions. I was very saddened by the passing of Lady Thatcher. She showed real courage when faced with the challenge of the Iranian embassy siege and the Falklands War. If either of these missions had failed, there can be no doubt Mrs Thatcher would have been overthrown even faster by her colleagues than she was to be in 1990.

We thought we would head straight for the beach but, instead, we went round and round in endless circles like day-trippers on a municipal boating lake. We’d laid three long snakes of green parachute cord across the bush and they slithered invisibly through the landscape. H was on top form. He had plans to formulate and there isn’t an officer on the planet that doesn’t love planning.