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Robert Blair Mayne
Paddy Mayne near Kabrit, Egypt, in 1942
Nickname(s)Paddy
The Irish Lion
Born(1915-01-11)11 January 1915
Newtownards, County Down, Ireland
Died14 December 1955(1955-12-14) (aged 40)
Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
Years of service1939–1945
RankLieutenant Colonel
Commands held1st Special Air Service Regiment
Battles/wars
  • Second World War
    • North African campaign
    • Battle of the Litani River
  • Sicily Campaign
  • Operation Overlord
    • Operation Houndsworth
    • Operation Wallace
  • Operation Howard
Awards
  • Distinguished Service Order & Three Bars
  • Mentioned in Despatches
  • Legion of Honour (France)
  • Croix de guerre (France)
Alma materQueen's University Belfast
Regent House Grammar School
Other workSecretary to the Law Society of Northern Ireland, lawyer, boxer

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, DSO & Three Bars (11 January 1915 – 14 December 1955), better known as Paddy Mayne, was a British Army officer from Newtownards, capped for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions at rugby union, lawyer, amateur boxer, and a founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS).

During the course of the Second World War, Mayne became one of the British Army's most highly decorated soldiers.[1] He was controversially denied a Victoria Cross.

  1. ^ The Oxford Companion to World War II, Oxford University Press, 2001 paperback edition, ISBN 0198604467, 'Special Air Service'

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