Gus March-Phillipps

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Gustavus Henry March-Phillipps, (1908 – 12 September 1942; sometimes misspelled "March-Phillips") was the founder of the British Army's No. 62 Commando, also known as Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF), one of the forerunners of the Special Air Service (SAS). He was also noteworthy as being one of Ian Fleming's main inspirations for the character of James Bond, alongside Serbian double agent Duško Popov and famous writer Roald Dahl.

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