The British SAS Unit that Stayed in Rhodesia and Fought on When London Said Stop

#SAS #SpecialForces #MilitaryHistory March 1951. One thousand Rhodesian volunteers. One hundred selected. Eight days after a parade through Salisbury, they sailed for the jungles of Malaya as C Squadron, 22 Special Air Service Regiment — the Happy Hundred, drawn from a settler population smaller than an English county. Twenty-nine years later, on the 31st of December 1980, a telegram arrived from Hereford and the squadron was no more. Between those two dates lies one of the strangest stories in modern military history — a British Army squadron severed from its parent regiment in 1965 by an act of political rebellion, that carried on fighting for fifteen years under a country the British government refused to recognise. The doctrine survived. The cap badge survived. The winged dagger survived. The motto survived. Only the country didn't. JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Was C Squadron still part of the SAS family during those fifteen severed years, or had the political rupture made it something else entirely? Drop your perspective in the comments — our community of military history enthusiasts brings deep knowledge of this period and we want to hear from you. SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL: If this genealogy of one of the most institutionally complicated units in special forces history brought you something new, hit that LIKE button. It helps us keep producing the long-form, properly researched histories that don't fit on shorter channels. NEVER MISS THE TRUTH: Subscribe and hit the notification bell. We're releasing more deep histories of SAS lineages, the operations the official histories underplay, and the units that operated in the spaces between official recognition and operational reality. New videos every week, tracing the bloodlines from the Western Desert to the modern Regiment. SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: Barbara Cole — "The Elite: The Story Of The Rhodesian Special Air Service" Ron Reid-Daly — "Selous Scouts: Top Secret War" J.R.T. Wood — "Counter-Strike From The Sky" (Operation Dingo) Jakkie Cilliers — "Counter-Insurgency In Rhodesia" Peter Walls — Biographical sources and Rhodesian Army personal papers Hansard Parliamentary Records — Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Dissolution Order, 1963 Lancaster House Settlement Documents, December 1979 Rhodesian Army Operational Records — Cross-Border Operations 1976–1979 South African Defence Force Border War Archives — 6 Reconnaissance Commando Formation Rhodesian SAS Regimental Association Records DISCLAIMER: This video is a historical genealogy of C Squadron, 22 Special Air Service Regiment, and its operational continuation as the Rhodesian Special Air Service from 1951 to 1980. All accounts are drawn from declassified records, published memoirs, regimental histories, and open-source military histories. This content is for educational and historical purposes only. The Rhodesian Bush War involved combatants on multiple sides, and this video focuses on a single institutional thread within that wider conflict. Viewer discretion advised for descriptions of cross-border combat operations. #SAS #SpecialForces #MilitaryHistory #Rhodesia #BushWar #CSquadron #22SAS #RhodesianSAS #OperationDingo #SelousScouts #UDI #MalayanEmergency #BritishArmy #Hereford #ColdWar #Documentary #6Recce #32Battalion