Dudley Clarke - who gave the SAS its name - created a fake parachute regiment to terrify Italian troops ... which was formed in North Africa in 1941 by Lieutenant-Colonel David Stirling. ...

The BBC show sees Dominic West's Dudley Wrangle Clarke ask to meet with Bill (Gwilym Lee), Paddy Mayne ... The lieutenant colonel chose to sell Keir House in 1975 for £2m to Arab millionaire ...

What the authorities did not know was that the cross-dresser was Lt. Col. Dudley W. Clarke of the Royal Artillery. Clarke was not only a British officer, he was the personal intelligence officer ...