Jock Lewes - Co-Founder of the SAS

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On one occasion, Stirling threw a real hand grenade into a bar in Paris so he could clear the room, according to Mike Sadler, 102, who is the last surviving member of the SAS. We had a fortnight of bootcamp type training led by our military advisor, a fellow called Bags. He is an ex-serviceman and knows of what he speaks. It was good. He was a good training officer. We did a fair bit of physical type stuff and tried to feel a little fitter anyway. When we moved to Morocco we had another two weeks of warm weather training. We got up early and did various types of punishment. And some days we would have a morning off and played around together in the sand dunes. That was good for morale, team building, that type of thing. Tim Jones. SAS Zero Hour: The Secret Origins of the Special Air Service. Barnsley, S. Yorks.: Pen & Sword Books. p.204.

Lewes was born in Calcutta to a British father, chartered accountant Arthur Harold Lewes, and an Australian mother, Elsie Steel Lewes. The family moved to Australia and Lewes grew up at Bowral, New South Wales. [3] As a teenager he attended The King's School, Parramatta. [1]He was depicted by Alfie Allen in the 2022 television historical drama SAS: Rogue Heroes. [10] Military career [ edit ] Sophie Evans (6 February 2017). "SAS founder was 'dazzled' by Third Reich and even fell in love with NAZI socialite in run-up to WW2". The Daily Mirror . Retrieved 11 November 2022. We’ve got his pictures and I’ve been made to look like him. But to be honest I don’t, because he looked much better in a dress than me. I just don’t look good in a dress. Playing the mysterious spy Eve, you’ll most likely know Sofia Boutella from her role as Jaylah in Star Trek Beyond, Ahmanet in The Mummy and Gazelle in Kingsman: The Secret Service. Theo Barklem-Biggs as Reg Seekings To destroy Axis vehicles, members of the SAS surreptitiously attached small explosive charges. Lewes noticed the respective weaknesses of conventional blast and incendiaries, as well as their failure to destroy vehicles in some cases. He improvised a new, combined charge out of plastic explosive, diesel and thermite. The Lewes bomb was used throughout the Second World War. [5]

Certainly, Stirling was captured in January 1943 and sat out the rest of the war in POW camps, from which he tried (and failed) to repeatedly escape. Hill, Amelia (23 July 2000). "SAS founder was a Nazi sympathiser". The Observer . Retrieved 2 March 2017. In sharp contrast to Stirling, Lieutenant Paddy Mayne, a rugger international from Ulster, may be a lover of poetry, but he is better known as an unexploded bomb likely to go off as soon as he has downed more than a bottle of whisky or rum. Mayne is first shown meeting Stirling in a military prison, having beaten up his own commanding officer for interrupting a game of chess, although this is almost certainly SAS myth rather than the truth. Once they were made a formal part of the army, they had to give up their sand-coloured headwear and instead don the red berets of paratroopers.General Bernard Montgomery was among senior officers who initially did not look kindly on the SAS. He described Stirling as 'mad, quite, quite mad'. Lewes was first commissioned to the British Army's General List as a university candidate on 5 July 1935, while a student at Oxford. [11] At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was briefly transferred to a Territorial Army unit, the 1st Battalion, Tower Hamlets Rifles, Rifle Brigade on 2 September 1939 before joining the Welsh Guards on 28 October. [12] Stirling got the idea for the new elite regiment after witnessing the British Army's drubbing against German military chief Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in Egypt. Just Stop Oil protestors spared from road obstruction charges - as police arrested them while the green man was showing Child dies in horror Surrey car crash between Tesla and Vauxhall Astra - as cops arrest 'uninsured and unlicenced' man, 20, for 'dangerous driving'