Bob Lilley (British Army soldier)
Ernest Thomas Bob Lilley MM BEM was a founding member of the British Special Air Service. A member of the Coldstream Guards, Lilley was one of the first four men selected by Colonel David Stirling to be a founder member of L Detachment 1st SAS in Middle East HQ Cairo 1940. He took part in many special forces operations and missions behind enemy lines in Libya against Italian and German forces during World War II.
Lilley was born at Wolverhampton onFebruary 1914. During the Second World War he enlisted into the Coldstream Guards in September 1940 and was one of the founding members of L Detachment, having joined from No.Commando in September 1941, as one of the Tobruk Four under officer Lieutenant Jock Lewes, who was killed in December the same year and of whom David Stirling later wrote Jock could far more genuinely claim to be the founder of the S.A.S. than I. Prior to joining L Detachment Sgt Lilley along with Jock Lewes was seconded to Layforce and took part in operations. Subsequently when Layforce was disbanded Sgt Lilley was attached toCommando and thereafter selected along with Jock Lewis by David Stirling to become part of L Detachment.
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