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00:00Welcome to SU News channel.
00:02Say S Hero Who Took Part in Iranian Embassy Siege and Daring Falklands War Raids Dies
00:07Aged 82.
00:08And a Say S Hero Who Took Part in the Infamous Iranian Embassy Siege and Daring Raids During
00:13the Falklands War Has Died Aged 82.
00:16Warrant Officer John Thompson died on Saturday evening after a period of ill health.
00:21Originally from Liverpool, Mr Thompson began his military career after joining the Royal
00:25Electrical Mechanical Engineers and was eventually posted to Cyprus on New Year's Day 1964.
00:32He was one of a SAS team flown into the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 after six gunmen
00:37took 26 hostages, killed one and threw his body out of the building.
00:41His team stormed the building by abseiling from the roof in a successful rescue bid that
00:45killed five of the terrorists.
00:47He was also one of several brave troops used successfully to attack Argentine forces on
00:52the Falklands ahead of the main British assault in 1982.
00:56Mr Thompson's collection of medals includes one from the UN for his work in Cyprus in
01:00the 1960s, General Service and Northern Ireland Medals, a South Atlantic Medal and the Republic
01:05of Korea Service Medal.
01:08Having successfully completed his parachute training with the Royal Electrical Mechanical
01:12Engineers, Mr Thompson served with the United Nations in Cyprus before transferring to the
01:16Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Parachute Brigade, in 1969.
01:21In 1974, he gained the rare distinction of being presented at a parade with the Republic
01:26of Korea Service Medal after a year there.
01:29For years later, he successfully applied for and completed his SAS selection and was posted
01:33to Boat Troop, a squadron.
01:35In May 1980, he took part in Operation Nimrod to help free hostages being held by terrorists
01:41inside the Iranian embassy in central London.
01:44Mr Thompson and one of his three colleagues from a squadron were sent to the front of
01:47building where they fired gas canisters into the embassy and were pictured doing so.
01:52The following year, he was secretly dropped in a full three weeks before the full British
01:56army arrived in the Falklands, killing the enemy and passing on important information
02:00back to the UK without ever being detected.
02:04Incredibly he is also the only SAS man top take part in the dramatic siege in Kensington
02:08and operations in the South Atlantic after Argentina invaded the British Falkland Islands.
02:14Mr Thompson retired from the army after the war and worked as a bodyguard in the Middle
02:18East.
02:19In 2013, he sold his medals for £17,000 after they were auctioned on the TV show Dickinson's
02:25Real Deal.
02:26The army hero said at the time, I had a really great day although the auction was more nerve-wracking
02:31than being in the army.
02:33I am going to share the money with my family and I also have a new granddaughter, Lucy,
02:37who is two weeks old, so I am going to invest some of the money for her future education
02:41when I am gone.
02:42Mr Thompson also said he was the only SAS operative to take part in the Iranian embassy
02:47siege and the Falklands because he switched squadron.
02:50Speaking in 2012, he said, we were on standby when the embassy siege happened and in MoD
02:55policemen said we were needed.
02:57I didn't want to go because I was just leaving to watch Liverpool play in Birmingham in the
03:01third replay of the FA Cup semi-final.
03:04I remember saying find somebody else but in the end I was pleased I didn't go because
03:08we lost 1-0 against Arsenal.
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