Harry Gladwyn Harcourt , DSO & Bar , OBE , MC ( 13 February 1895 – 20 December 1970 ) was an officer in the British Army and later the Australian Army who commanded an Australian commando military.military_service during the Second World War .

John Frederick Durnford-Slater , DSO and bar ( 1909 – 5 February 1972 ) was a British Army officer who was credited with raising the first Army commando military.military_service during the Second World War .

Major John ( `` Johnny '' ) Wiseman MC ( 27 January 1916 – 23 August 2005 ) was a British soldier and World War II Special Air Service ( SAS ) veteran , where he saw action in the long range desert raiding parties of the North African Campaign , then in front line support of the invasion of Sicily and Italy during which he was awarded the Military Cross , followed by commando military.military_service deep behind German lines following the Invasion of Normandy .

In the Battle of Tweebosch or De Klipdrift on 7 March 1902 , a Boer commando military.military_command by Koos de la Rey defeated a British column under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Methuen during the final months of the Second Boer War .

Josef Klehr ( October 17 , 1904 , Langenau , Upper Silesia – August 23 , 1988 , Leiferde ) was an SS- '' Oberscharführer '' , supervisor in several Nazi concentration camps and head of the SS disinfection commando military.military_service Auschwitz concentration camp .

Hambleton along with 1st Lt. Mark Clark , who was shot down during rescue operations , were finally recovered from behind the front lines on two different nights in daring , covert , night-time rescues carried out by U.S. Navy SEAL Thomas R. Norris and VNN commando military.military_service Van Kiet .

Otto Skorzeny ( `` historical '' ) : SS Hauptsturmführer , Skorzeny is a Waffen-SS commando military.military_service for his unconventional thinking .

Former United States Army counterterrorist commando military.military_service L. Haney wrote in his 2002 memoir `` Inside Delta Force '' that his Delta Force `` graduation exercise '' ( which consisted of eluding the Federal Bureau of Investigation for as long as he could ) began in the Embassy Row Hotel with a meeting in the Le Consulat restaurant .