by Gilbert Adams bromide print, 1993 19 7/8 in. Major General Rupert Smith. Select key words to follow your clients. Andy McNab, forbidden by the regiment to write of his experiences behind enemy lines during the Gulf War, left in order to do so, and became a millionaire in the process. And the revelations that then hit the bookstands could make Camillagate and the Squidgy tapes look very tame indeed. "We had a few fidgets," the corporal noted laconically, "but no one actually moved into the line of fire.". At Hiscox MGA, James de Labillière has 14 colleagues who can be contacted including Napoleon Montes-Amaya (Specialty Lines), Paul Miller (Marine Underwriting)… Industry Colleagues. to follow the career of James de Labillière. At the base of the regimental clock at Stirling Lines, the SAS headquarters in Hereford, is inscribed a verse from "The Golden Road to Samarkand" by James Elroy Flecker. The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. "Like it or not, I had to live and work with my troop for the next 14 weeks. In a filmed reconstruction in tonight's episode of The Soldier's Story, a young officer is initiated into the terrors of being under live fire: obliged to stand against a wall in a room between two targets, each of them inches from his ears. An SAS man is reported to have been killed in Gorazde, revealing the force's involvement in the Bosnian conflict. But beyond such bare bones, there have traditionally remained huge areas that were completely mysterious: where it was in operation, what precisely it was doing and with what degree of success. Self - Commander, British Forces, Desert Storm (as General Sir Peter De La Billiere) 2003 The Victoria Cross: For Valour (TV Movie documentary) Self - Commander British Forces, Gulf War (as Gen. Sir Peter de la … Three are killed, four are captured (including group leader Andy McNab), while Chris Ryan escapes. For reasons of operational efficiency, therefore, the SAS, the most elite force in the British Army, also became the closest the Army has ever seen to the sort of classless, rankless force created in Mao's China. Report an error Nick Gaselee. On 22 May 1941 his father, who had been educated at Monkton Combe School near Bath, Somerset, was killed when his ship, HMS Fiji, was sunk by German bombers in an attack south-west of Crete. "We are the pilgrims, master; we shall go. Lieutenant-General Sir Peter de la Billiere. He spoke to Major Henry Bettinson of The Welsh Guards, Rifleman Joe Paton of 1st Battalion The Rifles, Lance Corporal Lewis Dublin of 1st Battalion The Rifles and Lieutenant Colonel James de la Billiere, Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Rifles. In talking things through, I unconsciously promoted the SAS tradition of what are known as Chinese parliaments - pow-wows in which everyone has his say about a problem before the commander takes a decision. The impression of rank-pulling was compounded when Chris Ryan's story of how he escaped through the Iraqi lines was included by de la Billiere in his own book. The first to make a move was a soldier - McCallion refers to him as "Pete" - who appears in tonight's Carlton programme as "Soldier I", talking about his role in the Iranian embassy siege. And the public needs heroes. De la Billiere, in his autobiography, Looking for Trouble, wrote of the problems he had in coming to grips with this peculiar culture on his first assignment with an SAS squadron in the Malayan jungle. It was in 1985, according to McCallion, that all this changed. In the Insurance industry, James de Labillière has 53,384 colleagues in 3,715 companies located in 127 countries. They even looked into whether they could cut off his Army pension, but of course they couldn't.". He was educated at Wellesley House, Broadstairs and Harrow. In baldly practical terms the SAS is a regiment of the British Army with headquarters in Hereford, a force consisting of, at any one time, about 300 men, with some 20 new recruits (selected from about 200 candidates) joining each year, and two territorial regiments consisting of civilians and retired soldiers. 58. De la Billiere, who wrote his books to get himself out of a financial hole (he is a Lloyd's name) got a foreword by Prince Charles to his account of … "The regiment's a family," McCallion insists. As a result, the regiment lost something. "None of us who've written books would have said anything that would cause harm, that would put people in danger. Two soldiers then dash into the room and open fire, loosing off at least one magazine each into the targets. Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Learn more about Insurance. Peter de la Billière 2 followers General Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC & Bar is a former British soldier, who was Director of the United Kingdom Special Forces during the Iranian Embassy Siege and Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the 1990 Gulf War. A partial list of SAS memoirs published since de la Billiere's and McNab's is as follows: P. McAleese, No Mean Soldier (1993); C. Ryan, The One That Got Away (1995); A. McNab, Immediate Action (1995); C. Spence, Sabre Squadron (1997); G. Hunter, The Shooting Gallery (1998); M. Curtis, C.Q.B. Sir Peter de la Billiere, practically the symbol of the regiment and the man who has done more than anyone to raise its profile, has resigned as chairman of the regimental association. Someone, he might have added, has got to write and publish their memoirs: for that, too, was the prerogative of the regiment's officers. Lieutenant James Gaselee. James de Labillière has a Master of Defence Administration, Strategy and Defence from Cranfield University - Cranfield School of Management in 2004 and a Master of Art, Defence Studies, Distinction from King's College London in 2005. View the executives' biographies. During his early career as an offi… Like the Royal Family, the SAS has traditionally benefited from being veiled in mystery; and like the Royal Family, as that mystery has begun to disappear, so the institution has come to seem more fallible and vulnerable. The whole place became more promotion- and career-oriented. Chef de service : Hélène Sarthou 1980: Storming of the Iranian embassy in London. Gradually the regiment began to conform to the norms prevalent in the rest of the forces. James served as Business Development Manager Special Projects and Group Product Head of War, Terrorism and Political Violence for Hiscox. The tale he had to sell was not of "mission accomplished" so much as of terrifying cock-up miraculously survived. 1988: An SAS unit shoots dead three unarmed IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. Sir Peter De La Billière. And the NCOs had ingenious ways of bringing home this reality to any pipsqueak officer who imagined he could have things his own way. Bienvenue sur le site officiel de la Ville de Billère. He trained at the leading Middle East firm Trowers and Hamlins, working in both their London and Dubai offices. General Sir Peter de la Billière, who commanded our forces during the first Gulf War, was responsible for the SAS during the siege of the Iranian embassy in … James was Colonel for British Army. Update the org chart details of James de Labillière. And Bar and work with my troop for the next 14 weeks and exposed nature of its work put Premium. 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