"Soldiers Great Britain Biography." . . . . "Great Britain. Army. Grenadier Guards. History." . . "An Active Service the Story of a Soldier?s Life in the Grenadier Guards and SAS 1935-58"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . "An active service : the story of a soldier's life in the Grenadier Guards and SAS, 1935-58" . . . "History" . . "Biography" . "An active service the story of a soldier's life in the Grenadier Guards & SAS, 1935-58" . . . . "An Active Service' traces a young Sid Dowland from civilian life into the tough environment of the Guards Depot in the 1930's and then on to a Guards service Battalion in London and prewar Egypt. The outbreak of war found Sid taking part in the retreat to Dunkirk and then service in North Africa before volunteering for the SAS. Captured after a disastrous raid in Sardinia, he escaped from a POW camp in Italy before making it back to England. The end of the war did not signal peace as the Guards were sent into action in Palestine and subsequently to the jungles of Malaya where Sid found that hi."@en . . . . "Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service. History." . . "Dowland, Sid." . .