He also was instrumental in a thing called the Capricorn Africa Society (CAS for short). This was basically a none racist idea to foster better relations between the peoples of Africa. It failed because of the end of Empire. I am English born and bred, and half german so I do love your history bits. You areone of the few Scotts who don't get the real history wrong, or carried away with nationalism. Keep up the good work. Actually Lewes (the inventor of the bombs) is the father of the SAS, it was his idea that Stirling used. There were also many, many wierd strange other so called private armies in WW2 in North Africa. for Example "Popskys Private Army" did pretty much the same things, though with much less violence, in northern Algeria, he befreinded, and used the Algerian tribes to beat the german convoys. PPA was melded into the SAS at the end of the war!
My uncle Jack joined the Commandos during the 2ndWW....the reason he gave his family back in Glasgow was that you got an extra shilling a week in your wages....he spent the rest of the war fighting in Malaya, Singapore and Burma collecting malaria while there...after the war ended, when he came home, he gave my older brother his kukri knife and gave me his dagger and throwing knife...he, like so many, never talked about his experiences...I loved him a lot.
I once knew someone who had supposedly been a heroic WWII Commando who would never talk about his experiences. We got on well and one day I did what I was repeatedly warned not to do: I asked him why he wouldn’t talk about them. “Why would I talk about repeatedly clamping a hand over a man’s mouth, pushing a knife into his throat and watching the light go out of his eyes ?”. The subject was never raised again. He worked as a caretaker. I attended his funeral, along with - to my surprise - many hundreds of others, some of whom had travelled from various parts of Europe to pay their respects.
On my Father's side, Uncle Thomas ex Commando finished up in the 1st SAS. Yes you're right about the extra shilling. He also had a small box he was issued with. The box had been full of pills. Special pills he called them that got rid of the jitters. If anyone ever asked him he would say he loved the knife work and those extra shillings.
However Sterling didn't invent the SAS. The idea was already being fully trailed and was already set up, they just needed a Crazy guy to come along and take the reigns - They found a whole bunch of Crazy guys. DS wasn't even a good soldier, Paddy Mayne had all the successful raids whilst DS flopped. Bill Sterling his brother was also better and more capable and most who are educated on the matter see him has more the founder and almost certainly the Co founder who doesn't get any acclaim. Linked people think that DS Stole the thunder due to the early deaths of Mayne etc. Let's face it DS had a very long life whilst most of the other originals died. Lets face it If you was very brave and on special forces ops and in the thick of the action you was very unlikely to live long. Maybe the person who lived to tell the secretive tales the longest did just that - Tell tales. 🤔. The Sterling brothers where also both born in London. Something else that's often brushed under the carpet from them it suits.
Scottish invention but they're here in Hereford, which is where I am. Great story and well told. My father knew David Sterling. He served 22 years from 1958 to 1980. They were rule breakers I can testify. Peace. Mark
@@WyeExplorer Ok, fair enough. I was going on your initial reply to Bruce when you didn't seem too pleased they were a Scottish invention and then your reply to the other poster's 70% figure. I don't know what the percentage is, but from what I've read in the past, it's high per-head of population. He's probably going on what John McAleese and Eddie Stone said, both former SAS men, which was that Scots made up around 70%. I can't imagine it would be as high as that, but still relatively high given Scotland's population.
I’m new to the channel and I’m really enjoying learning about Scottish history. I’m from England however my great great grandmother Mary Anderson was Scottish, she was from Glasgow she was born in 1900 and died in 1984.
My mother was also Mary Anderson , born near Glasgow. Lived most of her life in Bearsden and died aged 88. She had 4 sons and one daughter. She remembered being sent out with a pail of sand to use if a german incendury bomb fell on the property during the war. I hope I live as long as my mother and father. This is a great channel, so well narrated.
My dad was a Lovat Scout 1938 before being picked for the SAS in 1942 - 1960 after getting TB in Africa ,he died six years later. He was your typical SAS soldier and with being a Sniper he got decorated many times . He never spoke about it and only found out in his last days that is brother was also in the SAS but they were kept apart for good reasons and where never on the same operation or theatre of action. He was your typical highlander, strong of body and mind , loyal to the end and his mates/ colleagues were his family and your never let your family down .
Thanks for such an interesting and insightful account of the SAS history. The account of David Sterling sneaking through the gate and being chased, while trying to get his proposal to General Richie is a great example of: He Who Dares....Wins !
You have to like his moxie but his determination was what he was known for. No matter what SAS get it done even if plan A B C and D don't work E will. If ya fly by the seat of your pants, the enemy don't know what is coming and they didn't train for it. I love your delivery to your factual story.
I first read that story as 12 year old, over 50 years ago. I have heard the story told many times since, but I have never heard it told so well. Thankyou from Saelig Suthseaxe.
Goes back a good bit further than that. And in the case of the Commandos and the SAS. It all began in December 1899 when Simon Fraser (Lord Lovat, whose son started the Commandos) wrote a letter to the War Office proposing what became the Lovat Scouts. Archie Stirling, David's dad, was a Lovat Scout officer. 'Je Suis Prest'
@@IO-zg8md Related? Hell no. This is the heartland though. It's thick with Frasers around here. There is a picture somewhere that I think one of my cousins has now of my grandfather on a pony dressed in Lovat Scout buffs. I have his telescope here on my bookshelf.
That's because they got kiwis into the regiment as they found they didn't whinge about the sand and could fix anything behind enemy lines. They put it down to their rural up bringing.
My grandmother used to tell the story of sitting with Lady Stirling doing embroidery at Keir when there was a loud explosion. Lady Stirling reassured my grandmother telling her not to worry as it was only Davey blowing up the salmon
G'Day from Perth Western Australia, love yer work, was last in Scotland 2018, lucky enough to go to both the Black Watch & Gordon Highlanders museums, wife's family served in both these Regiments.
Brilliant video and interesting. When Stirling teamed up with Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne (most decorated soldier in the British Army) they indeed formed what would become the SAS. Always a little further.
After his capture the man who took over was Paddy Blair Mayne an Irishman DSO & 3 Bars, Croix de Guerre, Legion of Honour, MiD , who was David Stirlings right hand man David Stirling was sent to Colditz Castle for the rest of the war he would continue to be a huge supporter and advocate of the SAS for the rest of his life a great man
@@douglasherron7534 He was actually recommended for it on his Fourth DSO action in Europe but it was crossed out somewhere along the way and DSO was written in its place
@@zaynevanday142 Yes, I saw a documentary about him which noted that (and the efforts made to reverse that decision over decades by the people of Newtonards and his comrades-in-arms). It was suggested in the documentary that the decision to downgrade the award was because of his difficult character and the enduring idea he had executed unarmed Luftwaffe pilots during a raid on a desert airfield.
@@douglasherron7534 Nah thats just speculation Travis VC went to war under a false name as he was a wee bit of a naughty chap before the war, and ended up being the King of no mans land. All it would take is one officer in the chain that took a dislike to him
I was amazed to find out that I am related (albeit distantly) to Sir David Stirling.His 11th great grandfather was my 11th great grandmothers brother. I'd visited the memorial and driven passed Keir House so many times and never knew.
Subscribed after watching your "black watch" video . I'm Welsh and often feel that my history is often miss represented, as much of Scottish history is too . Now loving your channel . Sterlin was a bit of a psychopath that the North African Campaign needed . But he was also very sympathetic to his soldiers .
saida Hamelin they are plenty of irish history channels History Delving,Irish revolution channel,Clans and dynasties,Irish nation lives,Irish medieval history and many more.
Damn Laddie, I'm a fairly new subscriber and a number of you videos cross trails with my family one way or another. David Stirling's sister was Lady Dalhousie wife of Laird Dalhousie and the Dalhousie Estate in County Angus Scotland. David Stirling occasionally came to hunt Stag or Grouse on the estate. Our family was and are tenants of the estate going back many generations. My Uncle often guided him about. He told me Stirling was fit a crack shot even in his older years and a fine gentleman.
Robert Blair Mayne was the most decorated soldier in WW2. It’s an absolute travesty he wasn’t awarded the VC for courage in the face of the enemy. He makes David Stirling look like a Boy Scout. 🇬🇧
@Bruce Fummey, loving the videos. I am a proud scotsman (Although mixed and grew up in London but played for the Scottish exiles rugby as a youth). I remember my time in the army. A lot of the SAS soldiers were from Scotland
I lived in Rotorua NZ across the road from Captain Donald Steel of the long range desert group who spoke of David Stirling and his association with him in the Western desert and the transport the LRDG provided a most interesting man
Another belter of a video Bruce! My first phone was the 'talking brick' (a.k.a. a Nokia 2110)... I've been to the memorial - found it by accident on the way back home from Callander. A great man, with the flexibility of mind to ditch the parachuting idea, after the disasterous first operation, and switch to vehicular entry and exit - based on an acknowledgement that the LRDG had got it right with their approach.
I read about 3 scottish soldiers surviving after being capsured as they instead of speaking English they spoke Gaelic abd their captor's didn't know they was British and had no idea what language they was talking.
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I don't know anything about this channel, or you, I just see an exceptional, gifted man in front of that camera. You deserve every success in your business life. I'll bet it's down to very long hours and hard graft. Don't let up my TH-cam friend 👋
Stirling and the SAS were a major factor in preventing Rommel from successfully conquering all of North Africa. He was also a POW during the later years of WW2, and after 4 escape attempts was sent to Colditz Castle by the Nazis for the remainder of the War Stirling was so respected by his Nazi enemies that they didn't kill him outright when he was re-captured every time after escaping from the Nazi POW camps. David Stirling did get a bit 'Out There' in the late 1960's-early 1970's and was part of planning a Coup of the British Government with other Right Wing figures - but later thought better of it and distanced himself from them. This is excellently documented in Adam Curtis' THE MAYFAIR SET.
Ho hum, just an other awesome yarn. Great! Had read about David Stirling a few times, in different books, but never heard of your great tale. Thanks! And thank goodness for the closed captions! 👌
Another great Scotsman and WW-II military hero was Col. Tommy MacPherson, whom your viewers may find very interesting. I would enjoy hearing you describe his remarkable exploits.
Always love your delivery . A book I got from my uncle is called " The Phantom Major " . A good read on David Stirling ,the SAS and the LRDG . Worth finding .
Great Video yet again, I recall reading a long time back that Stirling after meeting the general was given an appointment to see Churchill himself, that finalised the whole shebang (no pun, honest guv). Sterling treasured the document with that signature he need from Churchill all his life! You can get a very rare insight to Sterling's Post War years in an obscure set of films by Adam Curtis called The Mayfair Set.. Lets just say it was Sterling whom (I M O) invented the PMC of today (Private Military Company).. My uncle was a Para and later SAS at Sterling Lines Barracks in the 70's Big Thumbs UP from me as per
Yeah I was in the SAS along with every other want to be that's full of pish. These lads are a different breed, much respect to anyone that has actually been in the SAS.
Did you know that one reason the SAS was so well resourced was that when Stirling had a chance (not so chance) meeting with Eisenhower, Montgomery and Churchill he humbly asked for their autographs when they agreed he snatched up a piece of paper folded it in half for them all to sign. Later he typed above the fold “Please render this man all assistance”
I read an article a few months ago that suggested Stirling was an embarrassment to the SAS. It was his brother Bill who was the real brains behind the formation of the regiment, and Blair 'Paddy' Mayne who had the respect of the men and was seen as the real leader.
My granded Sandy told me the 2nd world war started when Hitler wouldn't pay for his round of beers at the Barley Bree in Maidens, Ayrshire. I told all my friends in primary school the story and they laughed. The world(and my own in particular!) need you Bruce Fummey to tell a different story. I'm very glad you do....and continue to. Some 48 years later I'm a different person. My granddad Sandy worked in a munitions factory in Hillington and had a wonderful imagination, hungrily consumed by five year olds. My grandad Murray was a postman in the desert of North Africa. I never got to meet him.....I wonder if he agreed with grandad Sandy about what started this madness?
Love it man , it makes ye proud that we have contributed so much to the world for such a small nation of people. Can ye dae a video on Donald McBane the famous sword fighter
What about a video about Ulster Field marshals of Ulster Scottish descent. Montgomerys Father was an Ulsterman as was Auchinlecks family, Fieldmarshal Alexander was another.
My old man was in the 2nd SAS but didn't meet David Stirling, though his CO was his Sir Stirling's brother. I was actually named after Stirling Moss. Been to Stirling too. Enjoying your TH-cams on Scotland. Have a good one. :)
Actually the fist SAS were the Italian Arditi in ww1. They were the first parachuted in enemy line and their moto was, THE DARING ONES! the SAS one is incredibly similar! Also, the Arditis emblem was a skull with fethers and daggers!
One of those Crazy Americans here, First, I’m 99% sure I’m NOT related to Robert the Bruce. I thoroughly enjoy your videos and the history you teach in the span of 15 minutes, more or less. Thank you. Do you have any videos on John Knox? Thank you again, A fan over in the colonies.
Actually they're only supposed to be 10 mins, but sometimes I drone on a bit. Nevertheless I am the Genie of the lamp and your wish is my command th-cam.com/video/B9Rezt0k54E/w-d-xo.html
David Stirling is a British hero and I love the way Bruce tells a story, very entertaining, although I dislike the overlay of nationalism. David Sterling was a soldier in the BRITISH army, as was (Lord) Simon 'Shimi' Lovat another hero of mine. My late father-in-law was wounded on Sword beach on D Day, he told me the men worshipped Lovat and would have followed him to hell if necessary! It was he who started the army commando referred to in this video. Two fantastic Scots. Much of their training was done in the Western Highlands and there is a statue and dedication to them at Spean Bridge.
Great real stories Bruce makes me angry how history paints a different picture. Cant wait for you to do a series on the Germans/Greeks living in Windsor castle masquerading as English royalty
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He also was instrumental in a thing called the Capricorn Africa Society (CAS for short). This was basically a none racist idea to foster better relations between the peoples of Africa. It failed because of the end of Empire. I am English born and bred, and half german so I do love your history bits. You areone of the few Scotts who don't get the real history wrong, or carried away with nationalism. Keep up the good work.
Actually Lewes (the inventor of the bombs) is the father of the SAS, it was his idea that Stirling used. There were also many, many wierd strange other so called private armies in WW2 in North Africa. for Example "Popskys Private Army" did pretty much the same things, though with much less violence, in northern Algeria, he befreinded, and used the Algerian tribes to beat the german convoys. PPA was melded into the SAS at the end of the war!
My uncle Jack joined the Commandos during the 2ndWW....the reason he gave his family back in Glasgow was that you got an extra shilling a week in your wages....he spent the rest of the war fighting in Malaya, Singapore and Burma collecting malaria while there...after the war ended, when he came home, he gave my older brother his kukri knife and gave me his dagger and throwing knife...he, like so many, never talked about his experiences...I loved him a lot.
Hilarious you need to do your history homework Jimmy.
I once knew someone who had supposedly been a heroic WWII Commando who would never talk about his experiences. We got on well and one day I did what I was repeatedly warned not to do: I asked him why he wouldn’t talk about them. “Why would I talk about repeatedly clamping a hand over a man’s mouth, pushing a knife into his throat and watching the light go out of his eyes ?”. The subject was never raised again. He worked as a caretaker. I attended his funeral, along with - to my surprise - many hundreds of others, some of whom had travelled from various parts of Europe to pay their respects.
Why did he have a kukri?
On my Father's side, Uncle Thomas ex Commando finished up in the 1st SAS. Yes you're right about the extra shilling. He also had a small box he was issued with. The box had been full of pills. Special pills he called them that got rid of the jitters. If anyone ever asked him he would say he loved the knife work and those extra shillings.
@@adamatch9624 why not
The list of things the Scottish didn't invent is far shorter than the list of things they did. Great story Bruce!
Fantasy, pure fantasy!
However Sterling didn't invent the SAS. The idea was already being fully trailed and was already set up, they just needed a Crazy guy to come along and take the reigns - They found a whole bunch of Crazy guys. DS wasn't even a good soldier, Paddy Mayne had all the successful raids whilst DS flopped. Bill Sterling his brother was also better and more capable and most who are educated on the matter see him has more the founder and almost certainly the Co founder who doesn't get any acclaim.
Linked people think that DS Stole the thunder due to the early deaths of Mayne etc. Let's face it DS had a very long life whilst most of the other originals died.
Lets face it If you was very brave and on special forces ops and in the thick of the action you was very unlikely to live long. Maybe the person who lived to tell the secretive tales the longest did just that - Tell tales. 🤔.
The Sterling brothers where also both born in London. Something else that's often brushed under the carpet from them it suits.
@Scotty You obviously haven't researched and looked into it deeper you bigger clown 🤡🤡
@@mktf5582 name one
Best account ever.
I was a Piper in the Scots Guards, cheers.
Nice one!
Scottish invention but they're here in Hereford, which is where I am. Great story and well told. My father knew David Sterling. He served 22 years from 1958 to 1980. They were rule breakers I can testify. Peace. Mark
@dj zpe Yeah dude. Don't move forward without it.
@Scotti-D Mate, my father was SAS for 22 years. I spent my early life with some legends dude and heard very few Scots.
@@WyeExplorer Another southerner who just hates to give Scots credit. 🏴
@@saltiresteel6647 You what mate. I love the scots. The person above is talking about things he doesn't know about. Had to be corrected.
@@WyeExplorer Ok, fair enough. I was going on your initial reply to Bruce when you didn't seem too pleased they were a Scottish invention and then your reply to the other poster's 70% figure. I don't know what the percentage is, but from what I've read in the past, it's high per-head of population. He's probably going on what John McAleese and Eddie Stone said, both former SAS men, which was that Scots made up around 70%. I can't imagine it would be as high as that, but still relatively high given Scotland's population.
Then he teamed up with Blair Mayne, an Ulster man. So a crazy Scot and and a crazy Irishman. A pair that three of a kind won't beat.
2 Mad Celts
Irish, said no one from newtownards
@@ranger36100 unless you’re a Rugby player?
not an Irish man a planter and traitor to the Celtic nations
@@Romchav the brits are the Celts, check you’re history
Wow dares wins,regards and respect from Australia.
Thank you for such an excellent story. Well told and injected with humor. A pleasure to watched a craftsman at work.
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I’m new to the channel and I’m really enjoying learning about Scottish history. I’m from England however my great great grandmother Mary Anderson was Scottish, she was from Glasgow she was born in 1900 and died in 1984.
Welcome on board Thomas
My mother was also Mary Anderson , born near Glasgow. Lived most of her life in Bearsden and died aged 88. She had 4 sons and one daughter. She remembered being sent out with a pail of sand to use if a german incendury bomb fell on the property during the war. I hope I live as long as my mother and father. This is a great channel, so well narrated.
I have a book on Scottish inversion 100’s of them the list goes on and on .
My dad was a Lovat Scout 1938 before being picked for the SAS in 1942 - 1960 after getting TB in Africa ,he died six years later. He was your typical SAS soldier and with being a Sniper he got decorated many times . He never spoke about it and only found out in his last days that is brother was also in the SAS but they were kept apart for good reasons and where never on the same operation or theatre of action. He was your typical highlander, strong of body and mind , loyal to the end and his mates/ colleagues were his family and your never let your family down .
Thanks for such an interesting and insightful account of the SAS history. The account of David Sterling sneaking through the gate and being chased, while trying to get his proposal to General Richie is a great example of: He Who Dares....Wins !
That reminds me of sneaking out on rps in colchester lol
David STIRLING
That version is the most entertaining I have ever heard 😆
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You have to like his moxie but his determination was what he was known for. No matter what SAS get it done even if plan A B C and D don't work E will. If ya fly by the seat of your pants, the enemy don't know what is coming and they didn't train for it. I love your delivery to your factual story.
Another great story Bruce. Cheers🇨🇦👍
Great story told by a great storyteller, well done.
Fascinating and refreshingly succinct. Bless up rasta, everytime!
I first read that story as 12 year old, over 50 years ago. I have heard the story told many times since, but I have never heard it told so well. Thankyou from Saelig Suthseaxe.
Goes back a good bit further than that. And in the case of the Commandos and the SAS. It all began in December 1899 when Simon Fraser (Lord Lovat, whose son started the Commandos) wrote a letter to the War Office proposing what became the Lovat Scouts. Archie Stirling, David's dad, was a Lovat Scout officer.
'Je Suis Prest'
Spot on. And a bit of credit to the Dutch too. Are you related to Lord Lovat? What a great legacy.
@@IO-zg8md Related? Hell no. This is the heartland though. It's thick with Frasers around here. There is a picture somewhere that I think one of my cousins has now of my grandfather on a pony dressed in Lovat Scout buffs. I have his telescope here on my bookshelf.
David has always been a hero of mine gained a new insight. Thank you very much sir.
Sir David Stirling is known in NZ, this man is revered here.
That's because they got kiwis into the regiment as they found they didn't whinge about the sand and could fix anything behind enemy lines. They put it down to their rural up bringing.
Yes, Rennie Lines and the Regiment currently stationed there are testament to this.
Best of the best.
Well done for this Bruce. Watched quite a few of your posts, all are enjoyable, informative, balanced and necessary.
Many thanks!
My grandmother used to tell the story of sitting with Lady Stirling doing embroidery at Keir when there was a loud explosion. Lady Stirling reassured my grandmother telling her not to worry as it was only Davey blowing up the salmon
G'Day from Perth Western Australia, love yer work, was last in Scotland 2018, lucky enough to go to both the Black Watch & Gordon Highlanders museums, wife's family served in both these Regiments.
Here's one for you th-cam.com/video/obUk34imVG0/w-d-xo.html
Never mind 'Who Dares Wins', the SAS motto could have been: 'There may be some merit in this'! LOL. Great story and great man!
I always understood the SAS motto was, RETALIATE FIRST.
@@derekwordley1837I have read that the original SAS members had their own private version.. “Who cares who wins”!
Brilliant video and interesting. When Stirling teamed up with Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne (most decorated soldier in the British Army) they indeed formed what would become the SAS. Always a little further.
Don't forget Jock Lewes an Australian.
Paddy maine Irish Rugby internationalist but by all accounts a drunken nutcase
@@VilhelmHammershoi1666 he was the right man at the right time for the right job.
@@Jimmie16 he was actually Indian 😉
Paddy mayne not main
After his capture the man who took over was Paddy Blair Mayne an Irishman DSO & 3 Bars, Croix de Guerre, Legion of Honour, MiD , who was David Stirlings right hand man David Stirling was sent to Colditz Castle for the rest of the war he would continue to be a huge supporter and advocate of the SAS for the rest of his life a great man
Paddy Mayne was probably the bravest man never to be awarded the V.C.
@@douglasherron7534 He was actually recommended for it on his Fourth DSO action in Europe but it was crossed out somewhere along the way and DSO was written in its place
@@zaynevanday142 Yes, I saw a documentary about him which noted that (and the efforts made to reverse that decision over decades by the people of Newtonards and his comrades-in-arms).
It was suggested in the documentary that the decision to downgrade the award was because of his difficult character and the enduring idea he had executed unarmed Luftwaffe pilots during a raid on a desert airfield.
@@douglasherron7534 Nah thats just speculation Travis VC went to war under a false name as he was a wee bit of a naughty chap before the war, and ended up being the King of no mans land. All it would take is one officer in the chain that took a dislike to him
@@zaynevanday142 Agreed.
Dave Lister's Scottish Uncle. Some dude. Love the content big time ...... MORE O THIS PLEASE
Ah the video I was waiting for , I served in the Scots Dragoons for eight years including a tour in Kosovo and I was always a fan boy of this man.
Good bunch of lads, was in fally at the same time 😀
I was amazed to find out that I am related (albeit distantly) to Sir David Stirling.His 11th great grandfather was my 11th great grandmothers brother. I'd visited the memorial and driven passed Keir House so many times and never knew.
Subscribed after watching your "black watch" video . I'm Welsh and often feel that my history is often miss represented, as much of Scottish history is too .
Now loving your channel .
Sterlin was a bit of a psychopath that the North African Campaign needed . But he was also very sympathetic to his soldiers .
You're the man. Thanks for the content brother
Love your show! Wish we had an Irish version of this. It is fascinating to me, good job sir.
There's bound to be someone who could do it
saida Hamelin they are plenty of irish history channels History Delving,Irish revolution channel,Clans and dynasties,Irish nation lives,Irish medieval history and many more.
Thanks so much! I am really new to all this hence my ignorance! Checking out the recommendations now. Chances are it's going to be a late one.
@@OldNavajoTricks Irish, you’re joking
Mayne is not Irish, and what did the Irish do during ww2
Most entertaining host of history I’ve found yet.
Amazingly great video, thanks chief 👍👍
Hi there
My father served with this fine officer before SAS which was the LRDG as a Scots Gaurds
Thank you. Very well told and interesting
Damn Laddie, I'm a fairly new subscriber and a number of you videos cross trails with my family one way or another. David Stirling's sister was Lady Dalhousie wife of Laird Dalhousie and the Dalhousie Estate in County Angus Scotland. David Stirling occasionally came to hunt Stag or Grouse on the estate. Our family was and are tenants of the estate going back many generations. My Uncle often guided him about. He told me Stirling was fit a crack shot even in his older years and a fine gentleman.
Robert Blair Mayne was the most decorated soldier in WW2. It’s an absolute travesty he wasn’t awarded the VC for courage in the face of the enemy. He makes David Stirling look like a Boy Scout. 🇬🇧
I remember an episode of QI where Stephen Fry read out a truly immense list of inventions/discoveries made by Scots.Very impressive indeed.
I mind
I love this channel as much as I love this island! And yes I was born south of the border. Much peace and love ❤️🤍💙🖤
I love to hear the story part of history!
It is this type of story that got me hooked on history.
@Bruce Fummey, loving the videos. I am a proud scotsman (Although mixed and grew up in London but played for the Scottish exiles rugby as a youth). I remember my time in the army. A lot of the SAS soldiers were from Scotland
Awesome Video - Thank You Very Much!! Fantastic Humor!!
Tapadh leat Bruce, really good video. See bbc is showing the story of the SAS now on Sunday nights, though for reasons of my own I can't watch it. 😉
I lived in Rotorua NZ across the road from Captain Donald Steel of the long range desert group who spoke of David Stirling and his association with him in the Western desert and the transport the LRDG provided a most interesting man
Hirple! I love learning new Scottish words. What a great story!
😂😂 I should maybe do a word of the week and slip one in each time
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Yes!!!
@@ScotlandHistoryTours YES !
Another belter of a video Bruce!
My first phone was the 'talking brick' (a.k.a. a Nokia 2110)...
I've been to the memorial - found it by accident on the way back home from Callander. A great man, with the flexibility of mind to ditch the parachuting idea, after the disasterous first operation, and switch to vehicular entry and exit - based on an acknowledgement that the LRDG had got it right with their approach.
It is a Scottish invention (just like all the others) because of the Union, not in spite of it.🏴🇬🇧
WONDERFU!. What a hoot. Well done.
😘 I've missed you
Though it took me a while to adapt to the Scottish broga , You are the best story teller
I can remember hearing and I'm old.
Most vids have subtitles
I read about 3 scottish soldiers surviving after being capsured as they instead of speaking English they spoke Gaelic abd their captor's didn't know they was British and had no idea what language they was talking.
Our local Doctor Farquhar McRea did just this in the African campaign and they let him go thinking he was Russian he lived in Balmacara Square 😊
Always a guid reason to ken anither language
@@Indyghurl always a good reason to learn another language
Really well researched and presented. Outstanding stuff.
Thanks man
Tremendous video my friend
Thanks
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I don't know anything about this channel, or you, I just see an exceptional, gifted man in front of that camera. You deserve every success in your business life. I'll bet it's down to very long hours and hard graft. Don't let up my TH-cam friend 👋
My wife has some letters and Christmas cards from David Sterling. My wife's father served in the LRDG in Africa and both became firm friends.
Stirling
Interesting story and a new word to add to my limited vocabulary! “Hirple”. Double thumbs up
Thanks! 😃
I love the way you tell stories
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Superb mate 👌
Col David Stirling was a Maverick of his time a man apart
Stirling and the SAS were a major factor in preventing Rommel from successfully conquering all of North Africa.
He was also a POW during the later years of WW2, and after 4 escape attempts was sent to Colditz Castle by the Nazis for the remainder of the War
Stirling was so respected by his Nazi enemies that they didn't kill him outright when he was re-captured every time after escaping from the Nazi POW camps.
David Stirling did get a bit 'Out There' in the late 1960's-early 1970's and was part of planning a Coup of the British Government with other Right Wing figures - but later thought better of it and distanced himself from them.
This is excellently documented in Adam Curtis' THE MAYFAIR SET.
Ho hum, just an other awesome yarn. Great! Had read about David Stirling a few times, in different books, but never heard of your great tale. Thanks! And thank goodness for the closed captions! 👌
Yarn ?
@@TARZANswings story, tale, anecdote, fable, parable, traveler's tale, fairy story, rigmarole, saga, sketch, narrative, reminiscence, account, report, history
@@geowidman Really, in my mind a yarn hints at the told story being mplausible.
Another great Scotsman and WW-II military hero was Col. Tommy MacPherson, whom your viewers may find very interesting. I would enjoy hearing you describe his remarkable exploits.
Can you send to requests@scotlandhistorytours.co.uk
Always love your delivery . A book I got from my uncle is called " The Phantom Major " . A good read on David Stirling ,the SAS and the LRDG . Worth finding .
Yes I saw it when I was doing research
David STIRLING
@@forthoseabouttodie Yes .Thanks for the correction . Fixed it .
This is insanely good content!
Please do a video on Sir Fitzroy Maclean!
This week, on the Scottish Dave Lister history channel 😂❤️
Those years in space havnae been kind
@@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 million years , ye still got that library book ?
Lindybeige does a good take on David Stirling
Now do an episode on Vladimir Peniakoff "Popski"... Not a Scotsman, but still a fascinating guy.
Great Video yet again, I recall reading a long time back that Stirling after meeting the general was given an appointment to see Churchill himself, that finalised the whole shebang (no pun, honest guv).
Sterling treasured the document with that signature he need from Churchill all his life! You can get a very rare insight to Sterling's Post War years in an obscure set of films by Adam Curtis called The Mayfair Set.. Lets just say it was Sterling whom (I M O) invented the PMC of today (Private Military Company).. My uncle was a Para and later SAS at Sterling Lines Barracks in the 70's Big Thumbs UP from me as per
Yeah I was in the SAS along with every other want to be that's full of pish. These lads are a different breed, much respect to anyone that has actually been in the SAS.
Did you know that one reason the SAS was so well resourced was that when Stirling had a chance (not so chance) meeting with Eisenhower, Montgomery and Churchill he humbly asked for their autographs when they agreed he snatched up a piece of paper folded it in half for them all to sign.
Later he typed above the fold “Please render this man all assistance”
I read an article a few months ago that suggested Stirling was an embarrassment to the SAS. It was his brother Bill who was the real brains behind the formation of the regiment, and Blair 'Paddy' Mayne who had the respect of the men and was seen as the real leader.
Trained by my dads lot. The first special forces. LRDG
My granded Sandy told me the 2nd world war started when Hitler wouldn't pay for his round of beers at the Barley Bree in Maidens, Ayrshire. I told all my friends in primary school the story and they laughed. The world(and my own in particular!) need you Bruce Fummey to tell a different story. I'm very glad you do....and continue to. Some 48 years later I'm a different person. My granddad Sandy worked in a munitions factory in Hillington and had a wonderful imagination, hungrily consumed by five year olds. My grandad Murray was a postman in the desert of North Africa. I never got to meet him.....I wonder if he agreed with grandad Sandy about what started this madness?
Love it man , it makes ye proud that we have contributed so much to the world for such a small nation of people. Can ye dae a video on Donald McBane the famous sword fighter
Can you send an email to requests@scotlandhistorytours.co.uk
What about a video about Ulster Field marshals of Ulster Scottish descent.
Montgomerys Father was an Ulsterman as was Auchinlecks family, Fieldmarshal Alexander was another.
Keeping it rill! Thank you
Really good and very interesting👍
My old man was in the 2nd SAS but didn't meet David Stirling, though his CO was his Sir Stirling's brother. I was actually named after Stirling Moss. Been to Stirling too. Enjoying your TH-cams on Scotland. Have a good one. :)
Quite a heritage
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I met Sir Stirling Moss a long time ago, his first question was the spelling of my name. It's annoying when people use e!
Brilliant!
somebody finally made history fun! :)
I try😎
Thanks Bruce.
Fantastic 👏👏👏👏
My Grada was a Comado and my Da was in the SAS. Iove your storytelling. Tickty Boo m8t. 🏴♾️
Actually the fist SAS were the Italian Arditi in ww1. They were the first parachuted in enemy line and their moto was, THE DARING ONES! the SAS one is incredibly similar!
Also, the Arditis emblem was a skull with fethers and daggers!
If you get a chance would it be possible to do one of Lt Col Colin (Mad Mitch) Mitchell, His exploits with the Argylls in Aden are just as legendary?
Can you send me an email to requests@scotlandhistorytours.co.uk
My dad was in Korea with the Argyll and sutherland highlanders.
Let’s not kid ourselves….the Scottish have always been very good at fighting !
I agree.But there are afew others too. The micks and the poms ,for instance. greetings from Oz.
Brilliant stuff being to memorial a few times SAS WHO DARES WINS 👍.
We stopped at that monument in drive around Scotland. It was a small park on our way over to Oban I believe.
DS was a childhood hero of mine, but we need a Dane to do a report on Anders Lassen VC...
I just love your stories. No crutches and they could't catch him! Did they really want to?
I wasn't there. I can only tell you what I heard😜
Love your tales , well told humorous and thoughtful, despite my name I'm English
One of those Crazy Americans here,
First, I’m 99% sure I’m NOT related to Robert the Bruce.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos and the history you teach in the span of 15 minutes, more or less. Thank you.
Do you have any videos on John Knox?
Thank you again,
A fan over in the colonies.
Actually they're only supposed to be 10 mins, but sometimes I drone on a bit. Nevertheless I am the Genie of the lamp and your wish is my command
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Proud to hear my old regiment 💂🏻♂️ hero!
David Stirling is a British hero and I love the way Bruce tells a story, very entertaining, although I dislike the overlay of nationalism. David Sterling was a soldier in the BRITISH army, as was (Lord) Simon 'Shimi' Lovat another hero of mine. My late father-in-law was wounded on Sword beach on D Day, he told me the men worshipped Lovat and would have followed him to hell if necessary! It was he who started the army commando referred to in this video. Two fantastic Scots. Much of their training was done in the Western Highlands and there is a statue and dedication to them at Spean Bridge.
David Stirling credited jock Lewis as the true founder of the regiment. Sadly Lewis was killed in action.
You need to visit the Normandy sea wall in the Ochil hills. It is fascinating.
Actually the man that really deserves the credit is a man born in India and brought up in Australia, but he was called ‘Jock’. John Steel Lewes.
Great real stories Bruce makes me angry how history paints a different picture.
Cant wait for you to do a series on the Germans/Greeks living in Windsor castle masquerading as English royalty
Tremendous recounting of the legendary encounter with Ritchie😁
His older brother Bill was the real brains behind the idea.
David Stirling is featured in the Adam Curtis BBC series “The Mayfair Set.”
Doune was a centre for firearm manufacturing in the "really" old days.
Famous for the scottish all-steel pistol etc..