As known The Regiment was disbanded in Oct 1945 but due to continued interest in small commando type warfare Regiment reformed in 1947 as a Territorial unit attached to the rifle Brigade and merges with The Artists rifles a volunteer battalion raised in 1859 from London's artistic community hence 21 SAS(artists)
Though volunteer not the the normal STAB correct Neil ???
I wonder if thru Artists the poem 'the golden road' came to the regt
The Golden Road
We are pilgrims, master, we will shall go
Always a little further, it may be
Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow
Across that angry or that glimmering sea
White on a throne or guarded in a cave
There lives a prophet who can understand
Why men were born, but surely we are brave
Who take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
James Elroy Flecker
Regards
Hardyferret