Gijoe, harsh, I agree with AR. The Torygraph had all the information but left the best bit to the last. As someone who spent the week before D-Day sitting on the invasion beach he was indeed special forces but not in the current context that we now use SF. Remember it was Mr Booth who said he was SF.
A friend of mine was also SF. He was an RM when RM manned one of the turrets on a warship. After his ship was sunk and survivors leave he was drafted to a new unit. It was very SF, but Ian Fleming's Naval Party 22.