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EXCLUSIVE: Former SAS soldier turned filmmaker Tom Petch (The Patrol) is lining up a film about British-Fijian soldier Talaiasi ‘Laba’ Labalaba, who died at the Battle of Mirbat in Oman in ...
The Duke of Sussex has unveiled a memorial for a British-Fijian soldier who died at the Battle of Mirbat. Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba, of the Special Air Service (SAS), single-handedly held off 250 ...
Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba was part of the elite Special Air Service (SAS) The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have unveiled a statue of a largely unknown British-Fijian war hero who died in battle ...
The British-Fijian SAS soldier was fatally shot after spending hours repelling hundreds of enemy troops during the ferocious siege in 1972 and was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. Saint ...
A FORMER SAS soldier who helped mastermind Fiji's coup was once involved in a ... and the incident provoked an Anglo-Irish rift. The British authorities said map-reading errors were responsible ...
But while the 1972 clash between British forces and ... Instead, the Fijian soldier's exemplary courage under fire places him high on the pantheon of SAS heroes. Labalaba is remembered to this ...
Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba, a Fijian member of the elite British Special Air Service (SAS), single-handedly held off 250 attackers from taking an army base 46 years ago. Labalaba, renowned as one ...