A Hero WWII veteran who was one of the last surviving original SAS members and was dropped behind enemy lines after D-Day has died at the age of 98. Brave Alec Borrie was among the first recruited into the elite fighting force in 1942 at the age of just 18 - despite having no idea what the SAS did when he volunteered.
He first signed up for the army in 1942 and joined the Gordon Highlanders, but after four months training there were no vacancies in the battalions, so he was sent to the Highland Light Infantry. The teenager's first mission was on the Orkney Islands in northern Scotland looking for spies.
As the weather was so bad, bosses started looking for volunteers for the Parachute Regiment, the Commandos and the SAS. Desperate to get off the freezing remote islands, Mr Borrie volunteered for the 1st SAS, having no idea at that time what joining the new elite force involved.
