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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 31304" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Large </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Donald (Lofty) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>D Squadron (18 Troop) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Sergeant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>5577627 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Mention in Despatches </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Borneo 1965 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit 1 Bn Gloucestershire Regiment</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 1930 Oxfordshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided Cheltenham, Gloucestershire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>22 SAS (16/D Squadron) 1957-62</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>23 SAS 1962-64</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>22 SAS (18/D Squadron) 1964- ?</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>23 SAS ?-1973 (WO II)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>author "One Man's SAS" (1987) and "One Man's War in Korea" (1988)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>reprinted as one volume "Soldier Against the Odds: From Infantry to SAS" (1999)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died November 2006 St Michael's Hospice, Hereford age 76</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>husband of Anna Large, Hereford (2 children) </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>London Gazette 43837, 10th December 1965, Page 11680</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/d-large.2861/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/2/2861-3103ffc4d14e3e3f4e250716d0f5badd.jpg?1591383606" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/d-large.8524/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/8/8524-b2fa84145f12e6de35e9d0b592da85b0.jpg?1591389305" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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