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SAS hero who took part in Iranian embassy siege and daring Falklands War raids dies aged 82 || Latest Update
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Welcome to SU News channel.
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Say S Hero Who Took Part in Iranian Embassy Siege and Daring Falklands War Raids Dies
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Aged 82.
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And a Say S Hero Who Took Part in the Infamous Iranian Embassy Siege and Daring Raids During
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the Falklands War Has Died Aged 82.
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Warrant Officer John Thompson died on Saturday evening after a period of ill health.
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Originally from Liverpool, Mr Thompson began his military career after joining the Royal
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Electrical Mechanical Engineers and was eventually posted to Cyprus on New Year's Day 1964.
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He was one of a SAS team flown into the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 after six gunmen
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took 26 hostages, killed one and threw his body out of the building.
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His team stormed the building by abseiling from the roof in a successful rescue bid that
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killed five of the terrorists.
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He was also one of several brave troops used successfully to attack Argentine forces on
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the Falklands ahead of the main British assault in 1982.
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Mr Thompson's collection of medals includes one from the UN for his work in Cyprus in
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the 1960s, General Service and Northern Ireland Medals, a South Atlantic Medal and the Republic
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of Korea Service Medal.
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Having successfully completed his parachute training with the Royal Electrical Mechanical
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Engineers, Mr Thompson served with the United Nations in Cyprus before transferring to the
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Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Parachute Brigade, in 1969.
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In 1974, he gained the rare distinction of being presented at a parade with the Republic
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of Korea Service Medal after a year there.
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For years later, he successfully applied for and completed his SAS selection and was posted
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to Boat Troop, a squadron.
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In May 1980, he took part in Operation Nimrod to help free hostages being held by terrorists
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inside the Iranian embassy in central London.
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Mr Thompson and one of his three colleagues from a squadron were sent to the front of
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building where they fired gas canisters into the embassy and were pictured doing so.
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The following year, he was secretly dropped in a full three weeks before the full British
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army arrived in the Falklands, killing the enemy and passing on important information
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back to the UK without ever being detected.
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Incredibly he is also the only SAS man top take part in the dramatic siege in Kensington
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and operations in the South Atlantic after Argentina invaded the British Falkland Islands.
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Mr Thompson retired from the army after the war and worked as a bodyguard in the Middle
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East.
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In 2013, he sold his medals for £17,000 after they were auctioned on the TV show Dickinson's
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Real Deal.
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The army hero said at the time, I had a really great day although the auction was more nerve-wracking
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than being in the army.
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I am going to share the money with my family and I also have a new granddaughter, Lucy,
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who is two weeks old, so I am going to invest some of the money for her future education
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when I am gone.
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Mr Thompson also said he was the only SAS operative to take part in the Iranian embassy
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siege and the Falklands because he switched squadron.
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Speaking in 2012, he said, we were on standby when the embassy siege happened and in MoD
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policemen said we were needed.
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I didn't want to go because I was just leaving to watch Liverpool play in Birmingham in the
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third replay of the FA Cup semi-final.
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I remember saying find somebody else but in the end I was pleased I didn't go because
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we lost 1-0 against Arsenal.
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