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Vires acquirit eundo.**
- Virgil
**We gather strength as we go.
Lt. Col. Brian Morton Forster Franks (1910-1982) was arguably after David Stirling and Paddy Mayne the most important figure in the history of the SAS. It was perhaps to be expected that he would be eclipsed by the charismatic personalities of both Stirling and Mayne alongside their daring exploits during the Second World War. Franks begrudged either man. Franks himself was highly thought of by both the officers and the men.
He wasn’t just a man of action but also one of stratrgic foresight. Franks was an early enthusiastic advocate of a future counter-guerilla role for the SAS. Franks was the first Commanding Officer of 21 SAS(R) and remained such until 1950.
Educated at Eton, Franks was the son of a war hero who was a colonel in the 19th Hussars. At the outbreak of the war Franks joined No.8 Commando in 1940. He became the Signals Officer of Layforce, in which capacity he served in the fighting for Crete in 1941. Later he commanded the first squadron of the GHQ Liaison Regiment ("Phantom") established in the Middle East. This unit, divided into six-man teams, had the job of obtaining first-hand information from the most forward positions and reporting back directly to the theatre headquarters via high-powered radio. In 1944-45 F Squadron served in the signals support role for the SAS Brigade.
Bob Laycock arrived back in the Middle East with his Special Service Brigade Headquarters in 1943 to take charge of the four Commandos involved in the invasion of Italy. Laycock himself was to go to Salerno with Nos.2 and 41(RM) Commandos, while a second Brigade HQ was formed under John Durnford-Slater for the other two commandos and the SRS. Franks became Brigade Major, today more accurately called the Chief of Staff, of this headquarters. As such he served with it in the fighting around Taranto and later at Termoli. He impressed the SRS and 2SAS men who fought at Termoli with his coolness under fire. Franks also possessed all the diplomatic skills needed in dealing with the top brass. Therefore when Bill Stirling resigned, he was appointed CO of 2 SAS and continued the preparation for the invasion of Europe.
Franks was a leader and a very brave one. He won the Military Cross in 1943 and the Distinguished Service Order in 1944. He would go on to be awarded both the Legion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre.
After D-Day Colonel Franks took ninety men of 2 SAS to the Vosges Mountains in August 1944 for Operation Loyton. Here the SAS mounted hit-and-run attacks on the Germans for ten weeks, sometimes aided by the Maquis (resistance; officially the French Forces of the Interior). Unfortunately a third of the force was lost. Other squadrons also carried out such missions and later a new squadron was sent to Italy, specifically to work with local guerillas. The SAS Brigade as a whole inflicted over twenty times as many casualties as they took in the operations of 1944/45, and in addition took about 5,000 German prisoners.
When the SAS Brigade returned from Norway in August 1945 the French and Belgian regiments were given back to their own armies. Despite the efforts of Mike Calvert, who had taken over as Brigadier in February, and a report by the Directorate of Tactical Investigation which highlighted the SAS successes, the British regiments were to be disbanded. This happened in October, following which most of the non-Regular SAS members were discharged.
From then on Franks fought an almost lone battle for a reserve SAS unit to be established so that the skills of these veterans were not lost. He was later aided in this by the SAS Regimental Association which he had established.
Eventually a compromise was agreed upon by the War Office. The Artists' Rifles, an old London TA battalion of the Rifle Brigade, was redesignated 21 Special Air Service Regiment (Artists) when the TA was reformed in 1947. (The number 21 commemorated 1 and 2 SAS). At first the Artists' capbadge was worn but soon the winged dagger and famed ‘Who Dares Wins’ credo made a reappearance.
Franks commanded this unit until 1950.
Without Franks it is very possible that the SAS would have disappeared forever. Brian Franks worked in the hotel industry most of his life and was Managing Director of the Hyde Park Hotel from 1959 to 1972 until his retirement. He died in 1982.
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