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Samuel McClelland
Samuel "Bo" McClelland was a Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary who served as the Chief of Staff on the Ulster Volunteer Force's Brigade Staff (UVF) from 1966 until his internment in late 1973.
==UVF leadership==
Following the imprisonment of UVF leader Gusty Spence for murder in October 1966, Spence remained ''de jure'' leader of the group but needed a stand-in leader on the outside. He chose McClelland for this role, and appointed him Chief of Staff or Brigadier-General of the Brigade Staff (Belfast leadership) largely because he respected him for his Korean War military service, Spence also being a former British Army soldier.〔Jim Cusack & Henry McDonald, ''UVF'', Poolbeg, 1997, p. 21〕 McClelland had lied about his age in order to enlist in the Royal Ulster Rifles.〔Ed Moloney, ''Voice from the Grave'', Faber & Faber, 2010, p. 334〕
Like Spence, McClelland was also a native of the Shankill Road and had a reputation as a disciplinarian. He sought to continue Spence's work by keeping together the few UVF members left and slowly adding to their number.〔 In keeping with Spence's ideals, he sought to lead the UVF as if it was were a regular army, and based their internal structure loosely on that of the British Army in which both men had served.〔Moloney, ''Voice from the Grave'', p. 375〕 He shared with Spence a belief that the UVF should keep a small, tightly organised membership and as such did not compete with the burgeoning Ulster Defence Association (UDA) for either membership or public profile.〔Steve Bruce, ''The Red Hand'', Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 147〕 Nonetheless, the late 1960s were characterised by UVF inertia, in part because as Officer Commander McClelland had little personal power and had to enact policies that he received from Spence when he visited him in prison.〔Cusack & McDonald, ''UVF'', p. 87〕
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