Item MCLEOD 2/4 - Report on 21 SAS Regiment (Artists Rifles), Territorial Army, 1948, by Lieutenant Colonel Brian Franks

Report by Lt Col Brian F M Franks, Commanding Officer, 21 Special Air Service Regt (Artists Rifles), Territorial Army, on his unit's first year of existence, including remarks on recruitment, training, equipment, organisation of air supply. With appendices containg his proposals for the future strategic role and deployment of the SAS, and the constitution of its Higher Establishment (HE); reports by Maj J Neilson Lapraik, Maj Anthony Greville-Bell, and Lt Ronald Grierson, SAS regimental officers, on results of training camps attended in 1948. 23pp