![]() In June 1940, he volunteered for the new No. Stirling was commissioned into the Scots Guards on 24 July 1937. : 8–10 Second World War and the founding of the SAS Lieutenant Colonel Stirling with Lieutenant Edward McDonald and other SAS soldiers in North Africa, 1943 At 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) with an athletic figure, Stirling was training to climb Mount Everest when the Second World War broke out. He attended for a year at Trinity College, Cambridge before going to Paris to become an artist. He was part of the Ampleforth College Contingent Officer Training Corps. Stirling was educated at the Catholic boarding school Ampleforth College. His paternal grandparents were Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet and Lady Anna Maria Leslie-Melville. Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat was a first cousin. He was the son of Brigadier-General Archibald Stirling, of Keir, and Margaret Fraser, daughter of Simon Fraser, the Lord Lovat (a descendant of Charles II). Stirling was born at his family's ancestral home, Keir House, in the parish of Lecropt, Perthshire on 15 November 1915. He saw active service during the Second World War until he was captured and spent the rest of the war in captivity as a prisoner of war. Sir Archibald David Stirling DSO OBE (15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990) was a Scottish Officer in the British Army, a mountaineer, and the founder and creator of the Special Air Service (SAS). Officer of the Order of the British Empire ![]()
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