Jock Lewes - Co-Founder of the SAS

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The book is produced to the usual high standard of this publisher and features a generous selection of black and white photographs. The SAS needed a combined incendiary and explosive device light enough to be carried by a small group of commandos yet powerful enough to destroy and set fire to aircraft on an enemy airfield. The last few chapters give a real insight into the work done by Jock in developing the SAS and his character really starts to come through. C. two weeks before the race, humbly stepped out of the boat to leave room for the “spare”, David Winser, who was Jock’s closest friend at Oxford and had rowed in the previous two Dark Blue crews in 1935 and 1936; in the latter Jock had also rowed.

Society figure Jock Lewes, a former captain of Oxford University Boat Club, was one of two officers who became national heroes when they created the Special Air Service, a unit that helped secure an Allied victory in the Second World War.Prince Harry demands new Mirror hacking trial 'as soon as possible' unless his demands for compensation are. For military deception and counterespionage purposes, this platoon-sized group was at first officially known as "L" Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Credit for the formation in 1941 of the Special Air Service, today the World's most respected special force unit, has traditionally been given to David Stirling. Jock was in reality the trainer and 'brains' behind this now legendary fighting force and this stunning biography describes the extent of his contribution. At this time, it was still the President, not the coaches, who decided who was going to row in the boat. Actor Jack O'Connell plays one of the original volunteers, Paddy Mayne, an Irish rugby international who Stirling claimed he had found in prison awaiting court martial for knocking out his commanding officer.In 1941, Lewes was in a group of volunteers assembled by David Stirling to form a unit dedicated to raiding missions against the lines of communication of Axis forces in North Africa. John Lewes, the soldier's nephew and author of Jock Lewes, Co-founder of the SAS, to be published this week, discovered the letters in his aunt's outhouse. Known as Jock, he was the son of Arthur Harold and Elsie Steel Lewes of Hanworth, Middlesex who married in Steyning, Sussex in 1911.

Let us hope that John Lewes find his famous uncle’s grave, so that Oxford Blue and the brave SAS soldier, Jock Lewes, gets the proper burial that he deserves.It is mostly related through the letters and Diaries of "Jock" and lent on heavily by the author of other Biographies of the founding fathers of the SAS though Paddy Mayne only rates a few mentions, This is more a family diary of a war away from family than a true biography, that said it is a page turner, it keeps you rapt, As a training Officer he was without merit.