(1913-12-21)21 December 1913 Calcutta, Bengal, British India
Died
30 December 1941(1941-12-30) (aged 28) El Gaus, Cyrenaica, Italian Libya
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
1935–1941
Rank
Lieutenant
Service number
65419
Unit
Rifle Brigade Welsh Guards L Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade
Battles/wars
Second World War
North African Campaign
Western Desert Campaign
Operation Crusader †
Memorials
Alamein Memorial
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] Its founding commander, David Stirling, said later of Lewes, "Jock could far more genuinely claim to be founder of the SAS than I."[2] Lewes also invented an explosive device for use by the SAS, the eponymous Lewes bomb.
^Army News [Australia], 11 January 1945, p3.
^Lewes, John (15 March 2001). Jock Lewes: Co-Founder of the SAS. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 9781844156153.
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Unreal TV. He was creator, co-writer and co-producer of the sitcom Shock Jock with Marc Gracie and Chris Thompson. Ferguson wrote a comedic alternative...
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Labour Angus North and Mearns Alick Buchanan-Smith Conservative South Angus Jock Bruce-Gardyne Conservative Antrim, North Rev. Ian Paisley Democratic Unionist...
subscriptions from supporters' trusts and individual fans, and is inscribed with Jock Stein's maxim, "Football without fans is nothing." In the spirit of the fixture...
Leigh Lawrence Cunliffe Labour Leominster Peter Temple-Morris Conservative Lewes Tim Rathbone Conservative Lewisham Deptford Hon. John Silkin Labour Lewisham...
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