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Once a Legend: "Red Mike" Edson of the Marine Raiders
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 31272" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Watts </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>John Peter Barry Condliffe </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>D Squadron (C.O) + HQ (C.O.) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Major + Lieutenant Colonel </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>415012 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Order of the British Empire, Military Cross, Mention in Despatches </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Malaya 1958 (MiD) Oman 1958-59 (MC) 1972 (OBE) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Ulster Rifles (later Royal Irish Rangers)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 27.08.1930, Portsmouth, UK</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>22 SAS (Troop + Co D Squadron) 1953-59</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>22 SAS (C.O. B Squadron) 1964</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>22 SAS (C.O.) 1970-72</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Staff College</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Brigadier, HQ Sultan of Oman's Defence Force</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award C.B.E. for Dhofar 1970-76</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Director of SAS Group</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Colonel of 22 SAS until 1978</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1st wife Mary Flynn (dissolved) (7 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1986 married Diana Walker (nee Steward)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1985 awarded CB</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1988 knighted</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 10.12.2003</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-watts.38291/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/38/38291-d16821d6f5f054aff0924f3ddc034ee9.jpg?1682794764" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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