Tom Petch

Tom Petch served for eight years in the British Army as a tank commander, adjutant, aide de camp, and a troop commander of 22 SAS (Special Air Service). His military experience gives him a unique perspective on recently declassified archives, operation reports, accounts, and interviews of the original SAS and their commanders. He is now an award-winning film director and producer whose debut film, The Patrol (2013), won the Film of the Festival at the Raindance Film Festival. He is also the great-great-great-grandson of Samuel Shepheard, who founded Shepheard’s Hotel in Cairo where the SAS was born.