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Lieutenant John Steel "Jock" Lewes (21 December 1913 – 30 December 1941) was a British Army officer prominent during the Second World War. He was the founding principal training officer of the Special Air Service. Its founding commander, David Stirling, said later of Lewes, "Jock could far more genuinely claim to be founder of the SAS than I." Lewes also invented an explosive device for use by the SAS, the eponymous Lewes bomb.
Early life, family and education
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. As a teenager he attended The King's School, Parramatta.
Lewes travelled to the United Kingdom to attend Christ Church, Oxford, from September 1933, where he read philosophy, politics and economics. In 1936–37, he was president of the Oxford University Boat Club. During 1937 he voluntarily gave up his place in the Oxford Blue boat crew, to assist it in winning that year's University Boat Race, and ending a 15-year winning streak by Cambridge. Lewes travelled to Berlin to work for the British Council and, before the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, was briefly an admirer of Hitler and the Nazi state.
A younger brother, David Steel Lewes, was later prominent as a cardiologist in the United Kingdom and was a Royal Air Force medical officer during the war.
Military career
= Early career
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Lewes was first commissioned to the British Army's General List as a university candidate on 5 July 1935, while a student at Oxford. 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.
= SAS
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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. For military deception and counterespionage purposes, this platoon-sized group was at first officially known as "L" Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade.
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.
= Death
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In late December 1941, Lewes was involved in an SAS/Long Range Desert Group raid on Axis airfields in Libya. As the raiders returned to Allied lines, their vehicles were repeatedly attacked by Italian and German aircraft. While returning fire on 30 December, near "Marble Arch" (El Gaus; Arco dei Fileni), Lewes was reportedly hit in the thigh by a 20 mm cannon round and died at the scene of the attack.
= Recognition
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Lewes is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial.
Personal life
At the time of his death, Lewes was engaged to marry Mirren Barford, an Oxford undergraduate. Their love letters were collected and published by Barford's son in 1995.
In popular culture
Lewes was depicted by Alfie Allen in the 2022 television historical drama SAS: Rogue Heroes.
Notes
References
Cowles, Virginia. The Phantom Major.
Wise, Michael, ed. Joy Street: A Wartime Romance in Letters.
External links
British Army Officers 1939–1945
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Lieutenant John Steel "Jock" Lewes (21 December 1913 – 30 December 1941) was a British Army officer prominent during the Second World War. He was the founding principal training officer of the Special Air Service. [1]
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Lieutenant ‘Jock’ Lewes was a dedicated professional soldier who excelled as a special forces officer. As the co-founder of the Special Air Service (SAS), he played a vital role in establishing the unit’s ethos and high standards of training and discipline.
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Nov 21, 2022 · Jock Lewes (played by Alfie Allen) had been out on a mission with some of the regiment when he was struck by some debris from one of the exploding trucks. He ended up being killed by a gunshot...
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Jan 1, 2025 · Jock Lewes was killed at the end of 1941 while returning from a raid on Nofilia airfield near Libya’s Mediterranean coast. His loss was a great blow to the young organisation – as well as a huge personal loss for his co-founder, David Stirling.
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Dec 8, 2011 · 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.
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Jock Lewes was killed in action in December 1941. He was returning from a raid on German airfields when the Long Range Desert Group truck in which he was travelling, was attacked by a lone Messerschmitt 110 fighter.
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Lieutenant John Steel Lewes, known as Jock (21 December 1913 – 31 December 1941) was born in Calcutta but grew up in Australia and served as a British officer of the Welsh Guards in World War II. He is the eponym of the Lewes bomb and was a …
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British Army officer prominent during the Second World War. He was the founding principal training officer of the Special Air Service.
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Nov 6, 2022 · In the new BBC One series SAS Rogue Heroes, we meet Jock Lewes – one of the co-founders of the SAS. Jock Lewes was the training officer for the brave soldiers, and he played a vital role in teaching the men how to use a parachute. He also created his own bomb! So who was Jock Lewes and what happened to him?
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Dec 22, 2022 · John Steel “Jock” Lewes is portrayed by Alfie Allen in SAS: Rogue Heroes. The co-founder of the Special Air Service, he’s also credited with creating the Lewes bomb, made from a mixture of Nobel 808 plastic explosive and diesel oil.
