SAS evil hero: gentle gym was ‘quiet but fatal’

Jim Badam, the founding member of SAS, earned Gentleman Jim Nickname for his courtesy. As he is alive in the BBC drama SAS evil hero, BBC News received more information about the person who caused havoc behind the enemy’s limits.

“My father was calm,” Lorna Alamands-Windmill reflects. “But fatal when necessary.”

The gym almond’s exploits are prominently shown in the television series created by Steven Knight, in which the cool person is painted by Corin Silva.

Almond service saw him earning a military medal with the bar for his bravery and he escaped from the Italian prisoner of war camps twice.

But contrary to the massacre carried out during the conflict, near the almond Woodhall Spa, there were peaceful Lincolnshire village in Stixwold, and Gentleman Gym Nickname was coined by his partner SAS origin.

Ms. Alamonds-Windmil, who wrote books on Dering-Doo’s stories, says, “I once asked someone working with my father how he got this name.”

“I was told that it was because he did not swear and to cite them, like others, ‘did not shout at the difficulties’. My father never boasted about what he did. That too Was a person of

“He was a true gentleman.”

Ms. almond-windmill is eager to shed more light on her father; One of the major characters of the series.

He was born in 1914.

On his 18th birthday, almonds rushed a bicycle from Stixwold to Lincoln, where he joined the coldstream guards. He served from 1932 to 1936 before going to Bristol to join the police.

However, in 1939, he was called back to his old unit and was given the post of Sergeant.

Ms. almond-windmill laughs and says, “My father was adamant that he does not want to spend brass in the war.”

For this purpose, he put himself forward for number 8 (guards) commandos.

Ms. Badam-Windmil says her father was the only person of SAS origin who had a diary throughout the war.

On 3 September 1941, two years after Britain entered the war, almonds announced in his diary: “I am now SAS”.

Ms. Badam-Windmil further says: “We think a few years with the police impressed this decision to keep a contemporary record of incidents. She left school at the age of 14, but her memories are beautifully written. . “

Poignally, there is a instruction in front of the diary that if he is killed, it should be sent to his wife.

On 14 December 1941, almonds and another SAS soldier, Jock Lewis, who will be killed on the latter mission, attacked an Italian roadhouse and a fort in Mersa Braga in Libya.

The pair parked their lorry caught from Italians next to a line of enemy vehicles.

“She did a rapid work of planting bombs on all vehicles on foot,” Ms. Alamonds-Windmil says. “At all times, German and Italian transport car kept going inside and outside the park.

“As soon as the bomb exploded, he (almonds and leuis) hid, while the enemy ran away in the fort, thinking that a large army was attacking them.”

A few weeks later, on the eve of the New Year, almonds played an important role in an attack on the Nofelia airspace in the Western Desert, helping him to win his military medal.

In the raid, Lewis, also depicted in the TV series, was killed when his vehicle was attacked by M / s 110 (M110) fighter bombers.

Ms. Amonds-Windmil says, “She dispersed the truck but stayed Lewis,” who dedicates a chapter for this incident at her book Gentleman Gym: The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS and Special Forces. .

She says, “Almonds picked up a brain gun, gunpowder and water and he and two men ran for a head-height rock.” “Almonds opened fire on Mi 110, which revealed their appearance and played a deadly ‘rose ring’ around the rock, on which the enemy fired.

“But Alamonds found the gunner of the aircraft and flew. Then he found more people, cannibal (damaged vehicles) to make a vehicle driven on the road and brought all the survivors back to the base.”

Almond won his military medal for his role in a raid on an Italian outpost in the western desert. One of the two courageous escape from the Italian prisoner of war camps was added to one of the time, during which he had mapped the enemy’s landmine area, saving the lives of the friendly countries.

During a escape, he made a rope from the rope used to secure the red cross parcel sent to the prisoners.

“She found the job of opening the parcel, which helped her save string pieces, saying Ms. Almond-Windmil says. “He knew his knots from the time of growing up in Lincolnshire.”

Ms. Badam-Windmil, who herself has worked as a captain in the Royal Core of Signals, says that she is enjoying the second series of SAS wicked heroes, which is currently appearing on BBC1 and iPlayer .

“Stephen Night has a great way to make a place in men’s minds,” she says. “The atmosphere is very good, which shows what danger my father and others were in.”

She says that Silva, who is playing the role of her father, has “unusual equality” from them.

“I exchanged email with Corin in which I told him about my father and his methods. He understood my father’s stance very well. It was a very good casting.

“Corin sounds somewhat like my father, whose length was 6 feet 4 inches (1.9 meters), his voice was not loud and deep, as you expected.”

Almond Paddy was a military sergeant of men, he was depicted as a charismatic but unstable officer in the TV series who was angry.

Ms. Alamonds-Windmil says, “Hopefully my father would have a calm effect on Paddy,” although she feels that the “wildness” of Mayne in the TV series is “a slightly exaggerated”.

After the war, almonds left the army but the foreign adventure proved to be very attractive.

Ms. Alamands-Windmil says, “My mother wanted her life to be calm.” “But he was not my father. He became active back while fighting the bandits in Horn of Africa.”

In 1953, he re -joined SAS, this time he fought with communist soldiers in the forests Malain Emergency,

Subsequently, he went to Ghana where he created a boat designed with his mind’s eyes during his captivity. They sent it back to the UK.

However, the kill of time eventually forced him to adopt a quiet life. Almonds returned to the Stixwold, where he spent his last day in the same house where he was born.

He died in 2005 at the age of 91 at Lincoln County Hospital.

Ms. almond-windmill reflects her legacy.

Recalling the conversation with SAS founder David Sterling, she says: “She said to me,” Your father set the standard. “

“David told me that it felt that it was a bit unfair with the other people who came after that because he was very good – his fitness, stamina and his character.”

The last episode of SAS Rogue Heroes can be viewed on BBC1 on 21:00 GMT on Sunday. All episodes are still available BBC iPlayer,

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