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^ a b c d e f g h i j "Major Tommy Turtle, SAS soldier who took part in crucial operations during the Falklands War – obituary", The Daily Telegraph, 4 March 2021, accessed 6 March 2021 (subscription required).

An obituary said of him that he was "a tall, strongly built Irishman possessed of good looks, charm, a gentle brogue and a genial but resolute disposition." Notes He died of cancer on 29 December 2020, aged 70. They had two sons and four grandchildren. In the summer of 1980, at Hereford, the headquarters of the SAS, Turtle married Margaret McQuillan. His later appointments were in the Directorate of Special Forces, and he served again in the Middle East before retiring to civilian life in 2005. In 1995, he returned to the SAS to serve in Bosnia, where he had an advisory role and was at the side of the US General Bill Nash at his evening briefings. This was first gazetted in June as a commission into the Parachute Regiment, and re-gazetted in July. On, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the newly merged Royal Irish Regiment, with four years’ added seniority, and the same day was promoted to lieutenant. In 1990, he became a warrant officer at the International Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol School of the British Army of the Rhine. In October 1988, while serving as a staff sergeant in the Royal Irish Rangers, he was awarded the British Empire Medal (Military Division) for meritorious service in Northern Ireland.

Īfter the Falklands, Turtle joined 21 SAS (Volunteers) as an instructor, before returning to a long Royal Irish Rangers posting in Northern Ireland, where in June 1983 he was an Acting Sergeant and was mentioned in despatches for gallant and distinguished service between November 1982 and January 1983. He went on to take part in a raid on Goose Green at the time of the main British forces landings, a gunfight on Bluff Cove Peak, routing Argentine Special Forces, and an SAS attack on Cortley Ridge in boats, just before the Argentine surrender. During the early hours of 12 May, with eight members of D Squadron, using two-man canvas canoes, Turtle went behind enemy lines to reconnoitre an airfield on Pebble Island, before his squadron attacked it on 15 May to destroy aircraft, radar, and an ammunition dump, with supporting gunfire from HMS Glamorgan.