Paddy Mayne: Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 Sas Regiment

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Queen of Halloween dresses up as a PEACOCK with 10-person entourage while her husband rolls up as an EGG. After a stint in the forces in the mid 1930s, he rejoined the Army in August 1937, but was then discharged from October 1938 until the summer of 1939.

The White Witch, X-Men's Storm, Pennywise and The Mask: As stars get into the Halloween spirit - can YOU guess who's behind the costume? While at school he also played cricket and golf, and showed aptitude as a marksman in the rifle club.Stirling was very brave, but he was not cut out for being a guerrilla fighter, so he willed himself into each operation. SAS: Rogue Heroes – a historical drama depicting the fascinating true story of how the famed Special Air Service was formed – is now available to stream on BBC iPlayer. On the battlefield, he had extraordinary nerve – he would do almost anything and people would follow him.

Obviously, anything by Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight is unlikely to be a snoozefest, but this high-octane series has been a total triumph. It was there that his talent for rugby union became evident, and he played for the school 1st XV and also the local Ards RFC team from the age of 16. Claye's daughter Margaret Metcalfe, whom he disowned when she was a baby, was horrified when she delved into her father's past. In the aftermath of the mission, which was codenamed Operation Bigamy, Claye was among those who were selected to continue with the SAS. Son of two retired Met police officers who avoided jail despite killing two pedestrians while drug-driving.

This article is an edited transcript of SAS: Rogue Heroes with Ben Macintyre on Dan Snow’s History Hit, first broadcast 12 June 2017. Little-known right to help YOU beat NHS waiting lists without having to wait for hospitals to invite you. But when Claye went off to pursue other women and his military career, Ms Metcalfe was raised by her mother, aunt and grandparents. On 9 April near Oldenburg, Mayne performed his last great feat of heroics, rescuing some of his men who had been pinned down in a ditch following an ambush. What was less obvious – at least to the rank and file such as myself – until the capture of David Stirling led to Paddy’s elevation to command of the regiment, was that he had also developed a considerable talent for the arts of leadership, planning and staff work.

Heroic military figures have long been the subject of public interest, not only because of their achievements, but for what motivates them. For all of its bombast, which is hugely exciting, the scenes in which Mayne and Stirling interact on a more personal level are tender and lovely. Churchill (Jason Watkins, joining a long line of recent actors having a bash, including Brian Cox, Gary Oldman and John Lithgow in The Crown) visits Cairo and meets Stirling to find out what the SAS might need to urge the war effort on.BBC One) – though if you’ve managed to avoid gobbling up the lot on iPlayer, you have more self-control than me – we have “only the dreamer and the madman left”.