Using the sun, sand and stars as his guide, navigator Mike Sadler delivered and extracted British special forces while on raids against Erwin Rommel in the North African desert.
Mike Sadler, who has died aged 103, was a former MI6 officer and an honorary member of “the Originals”, as men of L Detachment of the early SAS are known. He was believed to be the last survivor of the Long Range Desert Group or LRDG, without which the fledgling SAS might not have thrived. He also has a piece of the Antarctic named after him.