SAS Founder: Warrior or Phoney?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What We Know About David Sterling?
Sterling was not born in scotland. He had a speech impediment and struggled to communicate for the first five years of his life. Unlike his two elder brothers, bill sterling and peter sterling, who excelled academically and athletically, david was rather lost and overawed at ampleforth. And on leaving ampleforth, he went up to cambridge to study architecture but lasted three terms there and then quit. His mother sent him to america to ranch - this is where he was when war was declared. In lake september 19 39,. he gained a reputation for laziness, for indolence, who was nicknamed giant sloth. It was really,
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