WBA player who went on to join the SAS

WBA player  Harold White went to to be part of the original SAS  in WWII.

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00:00My name's Mark Whitehouse. One of my jobs is I'm the Poppy Appeal Organiser for West Bromwich.

00:06During some research about the remembrance game that we do every season at the

00:12Arlgyn and other professional football clubs obviously, I found out about this man, a local

00:18man from Wensbury. His name is Harold White. He seems just an unassuming man but I found out he

00:26was one of the original members of L Detachment which became the SAS. He was one of the original

00:3360 who after Operation Squatter only 22 survived and he was one of the 22. He became Paddy Mayne's

00:43main men and he went on many operations with Paddy Mayne. He then got cited for the

00:49military medal of David Sterling who was the founder of the SAS. As I said he's a local man

00:58from Wensbury who very little known about him at all and hopefully we hope to get the remembrance

01:06game in his honour and hopefully get some counsellors from either West Bromwich or Wensbury

01:11to honour him in some way or form.