What special forces unit of the British Army was founded in 1941, and was served by Sergeant Alistair Slater?
Alistair Slater Sergeant Alistair Slater, MM (25 July 1956 – 2 December 1984), was a British Army soldier who served in B Squadron, Air (7) Troop, 22 Special Air Service (SAS), who was killed on 2 December 1984 while on operations against the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Kesh, a village in County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland.
Babini Group The Special Armoured Brigade (Brigata Corazzata Speciale), also known as the "Raggruppamento Babini" (Babini Group) was an "ad hoc" armoured unit formed by the Italian Royal Army ("Regio Esercito Italia") in Italian North Africa, at the start of the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. The group was formed in Libya, as part of a plan to assemble an armoured division from the tanks already in the colony and from units sent from Italy. The new division was incomplete when the British began Operation Compass in December but the Babini Group fought in defence of the area between Mechili and Derna in late January.