Paddy Mayne
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Paddy Mayne DSO amp Three Bars was a British Army soldier, solicitor, Ireland rugby union international, amateur boxer, and a founding member of the Special Air Service . During the course of the Second World War he became one of the British Armys most highly decorated soldiers. He was controversially denied a Victoria Cross.
Robert Blair Paddy Mayne was born in Newtownards, County Down, the second youngest of seven children. The Mayne family were prominent landowners who owned several retail businesses in the town. He was named Robert Blair after a second cousin, who at the time of his birth was a British Army officer serving in World War I. The family home, Mount Pleasant, is situated on the hills above Newtownards. A paternal ancestor was Gordon Turnbull, who led the famous Scotland Forever Charge at Waterloo.
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