SAS/LRDG HEROES

GEORDIE FIGHTING LEGEND OF THE MODERN SAS

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Geordie Doran ranks as one of the most remarkable fighting soldiers of the twentieth century.

After growing up in Jarrow in the 1930s, Geordie quit the local factory where he worked in 1946, to sign up as a private soldier. It was the first step in a career spanning 40 years during which he served in the infantry, the Parachute Regiment and the SAS.

Geordie saw active service in Germany, Cyprus, the Korean War and Suez; he became an expert in jungle warfare in Malaya and in Borneo, as well as special operations in the deserts of Oman and Yemen.

Returning to England in the early 1970s, Geordie was interrogated by Special Branch about his secret activities in Yemen. Not long after, a serious road accident put paid to his frontline soldiering career, but he found a new and vital role in the SAS, as a permanent staff instructor with 23 SAS (TA) training new recruits.

He left the SAS in 1972, but could not settle to civilian life. He found himself a job as a Storeman in the SAS Quartermaster's Stores - a job which lasted another 12 years until ill health kept him from marching to the nearest barracks to join up once more.  



 

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Geordie (foreground with submachine gun), guards a convoy of loyal Arabs bringing in supplies to a secret SAS mission - June 1963

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"Geordie Doran is a legend to all soldiers of the Special Air Service.

Few men have gone through so many famous conflicts in Britain’s history. From active service in the Paras in the Suez crisis of 1956, through the humid and steamy jungles of Malaya, to the burning deserts of Oman and the Yemen and many other hot spots, he became an inspiration to his comrades and those who have followed in his footsteps.

In the Special Air Service, there are and have been many brave men, but Geordie was always in a class above in modern times".

Excerpt taken from the Foreword by Chris Ryan MM, former 22 SAS Gulf War hero and international best selling author of 'The One That Got Away'.