Reginald Lawrence

Reginald "Reggie" Lawrence, born 1961, is the father of Damien Lawrence, and a former SAS (Mountain Troop) soldier who spent sixteen years in the Regiment. He joined the SAS in 1980, immediately after seeing their use in the Iranian hostage crisis, and saw his first action during the Falklands War. In 1990, he was captured on mission during a clandestine incursion into a Soviet weapons facility, where he met Olivya Zhukova, the woman who he would later marry and have a child with. Six years later, during his last tour with the SAS, he discovers a large cache of precious stones in an Afghan warlord's cave complex, and buries them to support Damien in later life. On the 9th of September, 2009, both Reginald and Olivya boarded the London Underground train which was destroyed in a terrorist dirty bombing, leaving Damien an orphan.