What does LRDG stand for?

Long Range Desert Group

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Wilson later served in North Africa as adjutant of the Long Range Desert Group, a motorized force that harassed Italian positions; he later served in Burma as second-in-command of the 11th King's African Rifles.

UK vet dies 68 years after "posthumous" honor

Yet he had been a notably daring soldier, once part of David Stirling's Long Range Desert Group.

Prison works. . . It's letting people out that doesn't

The bravest thing he did, he says, was to address the Long Range Desert Group on the qualities of the Sudanese soldier: 'They lay around in the dark, bearded, silent and properly scornful even of my jokes - reacting much as a body of Muslim mullahs might react to a talk on the qualities of the Anglican Sunday school.

A diplomat with a difference

Later he was transferred to the Long Range Desert Group in North Africa and Italy.

GRASSROOTS: ex-service notes

Ralph Bagnold, a long-standing member of the Zezuru Club with many years experience in desert travel, was to found the British army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG).

The Hunt for Zerzuru: The Lost Oasis and the Desert War. (Books)

But he soon tired of sentry duty at Buckingham Palace and transferred to the Hampshire Regiment and then the elite Long Range Desert Group, a forerunner of the SAS.

Last Post for war hero Tex; MONTY DOUBLE SURVIVED GESTAPO AND ...

With Major Roy Farran DSO, MC and two bars, and the late Lt Colonel David Lloyd Owen DSO, MC, I've written two successful books - Daggers Drawn and The Sting Of The Scorpion - on the SAS and its predecessor, the Long Range Desert Group.

Schools need books, not pregnancy kits for girls

My prep-school art master, Ken Greves, served with the Long Range Desert Group and his tank was blown up in the Western Desert, but even though his son was my best friend and he knew I was an obsessive reader of War Monthly, the most I ever got out of him was that when he escaped into the mountains from captivity in Italy he felt quite incredibly cold and hungry.

Profiles in courage