Moreover, it was Stirling who asked General De Gaulle to have Frenchmen in the SAS because he needed men ready to do anything to deal with the Germans. The SAS needed a combined incendiary and explosive device light enough to be carried by a small group of commandos yet powerful enough to destroy and set fire to aircraft on an enemy airfield. He was credited with inventing the Lewes Bomb, a type of IED (improvised explosive device); and was awarded the DSO.

During its premiere run, the play tied the record for winning the most Olivier Awards (seven), including Best New Play at the 2013 ceremony (this record was surpassed by Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in 2017 with nine wins). Eynsham Hall (known commercially as Estelle Manor) is a Grade II listed mansion near North Leigh in Oxfordshire, England.He was buried on the site where the attack happened but the whereabouts of his grave are now unknown. After graduation he transferred to a Territorial Army unit, 1st Battalion, the Tower Hamlets Rifles, Rifle Brigade before joining the Welsh Guards. The play opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on 5 October 2014, after beginning previews on 10 September. The National Theatre opened its first international company in Amsterdam on 22 August 2017 with Joshua Jenkins (with Sam Newton and Kaffe Keating as alternatives at certain performances) as Christopher Boone, Julie Hale as Siobhan, Stuart Laing as Ed and Emma Beattie as Judy. Like his comrade and SAS co-founder David Stirling, Lewes found his time in the Commandos frustrating.

It was a fine letter; one day I hope my great-grandchildren will take the trouble to have them published for many people would read them gladly if they had the chance.This nearly had disastrous consequences, when John severely injured his hand during one of their bomb-making experiments. The storyline is a broadly accurate representation of real events, as described by Ben Macintyre in his 2016 book of the same name. Lewes, who helped to create the Special Air Service ( SAS), socialised with Adolf Hitler and fell in love with an "enthusiastic Nazi" in the years before the war.