He joined the Scots Guard[?] as a subaltern[?] in 1939, and soon after transferred to the special forces unit 8 Commando[?], also known as Layforce[?] after Captain Robert Laycock[?]. After this unit was dismantled, he convinced the army high command to allow him to create a new Special Forces unit - the deliberately misleadingly named "L Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade". He was captured by the Germans and spent the rest of the war at Colditz prisoner of war camp.
He was knighted in 1990, and died later that year.
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