Jock Lewes - Co-Founder of the SAS

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Jock Lewes - Co-Founder of the SAS

Jock Lewes - Co-Founder of the SAS

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A few years before, the author spoke at the Unveiling of the Jock Lewes Memorial at an army base in Hereford.

However, as Jock was making his getaway, one of the trucks exploded and a piece of shrapnel embedded itself in his leg. G. Rowe told him that after the race when they drove back for lunch in a hired Daimler, Jock Lewes was standing on the roof honking his coach horn the whole way to Ranelagh Club. In the novel, like in real life, Steel/Lewes and Madeleine/ Mirren met for the first time at Jock’s sister Elizabeth’s wedding in Oxford.The content of the letters is so at odds with Lewes's patriotic wartime persona that some military historians have suggested his early behaviour may have been a front and that Lewes may have been a government agent. Despite this calamity, Stirling was allowed to try again - this time with the vehicles from the LRDG (Long Range Desert Group) driving them for days across the desert to strike under cover of darkness. While his team’s attacks on airfields were frustrated, they wrought havoc behind the lines, destroying numerous enemy vehicles.

No doubt all this detail about the early years will be of interest to hard-core SAS buffs and military historians who want the maximum information on the man but I found it all very heavy going. He was aware that there was propaganda around intended to dazzle him but he was seriously taken with the ideas of the Nazi party too.Thereafter, the figure will not be available in any other way, shape or form for a minimum of two years. Film fans are left HORRIFIED by Dune 2 promotional popcorn bucket that looks just like a raunchy SEX TOY: 'I do not want to stick my hand in that! Kate will 'lean on' her trusted nanny Maria Borrallo as she recovers from abdominal surgery - leaving. Lewes attended a ball in 1938, where Hitler (left) and Joseph Goebbels (right) - the Reich Minister of Propaganda - were guests of honour.



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