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Dec 30, 2021 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
#OTD Lt Jock Lewes, original #SAS officer, was killed in action

David Stirling persuaded him to join in Aug 41: "I finally resigned myself to serving in the Middle East for the duration, and as a result here I am, second-in-command of a detachment of parachutists and liking it." Aside from inventing the Lewes Bomb to destroy enemy aircraft on SAS raids, he designed the unit's wings. Stirling, educated at Cambridge, chose the primary colour as Cambridge Blue whilst Lewes added the darker Oxford Blue. They were produced in Cairo by tailors John Jones & Co.