He was part of the Phantom Signals team, who hid in the forest at Moussey in France with the SAS, and were protected by the villagers. Listen to interviews, by BBC Hereford & Worcester's Nicola Goodwin, with former members of the Special Air Service, and their wives, about life in this elite regiment, and their base at Credenhill in Hereford: During the next 23 years, he served all over the world, including the Falkland Islands, and was decorated several times. They closed the doors at the Putson base in 1999 and on 30 September 2000, they held the Official Opening Ceremony for their new Stirling Lines Headquarters. Live TV pictures were broadcast to millions of people across the world, who watched as the SAS went in through the front balcony.

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He applied for service with the Special Air Service Regiment in 1959 and set a record as the youngest person ever to pass selection at the age of 18. The regiment moved to Bradbury Lines, Putson in Hereford in 1960, renaming it after their founder, Lieutenant-Colonel David Stirling in 1984.He's the best-selling author of The SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea. He's actively campaigned for more recognition of the work done by the men of the SAS in past conflicts. of the men and boys from the local area were killed by the Germans, after they refused to betray them. They then threatened to kill the rest of the hostages and blow up the embassy if their demands were not met, and so the call was made to send in the SAS. From 1996 they started moving staff and equipment to the new Stirling Lines on the base of the former RAF camp at Credenhill on the other side of the city.

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In 1991 Brummie founded the "Taste for Adventure Centre" outdoor activity centre for less privileged children.

Len successfully campaigned for a memorial to the villagers which was unveiled at the National Memorial Arboretum. Rusty is now an author, and has told the story of the siege and its dramatic end in his book "Go, Go, Go!"