The Irishman, ‘one of the greatest front-line soldiers of all time’, and his life after the war
Jack O’Connell as Paddy Mayne in ‘SAS: Rogue Heroes’
As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, many veterans of that conflict will be honoured in memory. But will that include a famous Ulsterman, who has been described as “the greatest soldier ever” – the legendary Robert ‘Paddy’ Blair Mayne of Newtownards?
Formal biographical profiles of Blair Mayne hail his extraordinary courage, his multiple military decorations, his key role in co-founding and at one point, leading, the wartime SAS.