Lieutenant John Steel "Jock" Lewes was a British Army officer prominent during the Second World War.
12 Facts About Jock Lewes
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Jock Lewes was the founding principal training officer of the Special Air Service.
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The family moved to Australia and Jock Lewes grew up at Bowral, New South Wales.
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Jock Lewes travelled to the United Kingdom to attend Christ Church, Oxford, from September 1933, where he read philosophy, politics and economics.
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Jock 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.
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Jock Lewes was first commissioned to the British Army's General List as a university candidate on 5 July 1935, while a student at Oxford.
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In 1941, Jock 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.
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Jock Lewes noticed the respective weaknesses of conventional blast and incendiaries, as well as their failure to destroy vehicles in some cases.
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Jock Lewes improvised a new, combined charge out of plastic explosive, diesel and thermite.
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The Jock Lewes bomb was used throughout the Second World War.
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At the time of his death, Jock Lewes was engaged to marry Mirren Barford, an Oxford undergraduate.
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Jock Lewes was depicted by Alfie Allen in the 2022 television historical drama SAS: Rogue Heroes.