David Stirling 1 SAS Founder.
Colonel David Stirling, the founder of 1 SAS was dubbed the "Phantom Major" by Erwin Rommel , and Britain's commander Bernard Montgomery described him as "mad, quite made". He was rumoured to have personally strangled 41 men. During WW2 he managed to escape five times after capture but was eventually sent to Colditz Castle as a POW.