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Major-General Lewis Henry Owain Pugh CB , CBE , DSO & Two Bars British Army officer.
Military career
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Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich , Pugh was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 29 January 1927.[1] Indian Police Service in the 1930s.[2]
During the Second World War , he served with the Special Operations Executive in India and, on 9 March 1943, he led Operation Creek which was a covert attack by members of the Calcutta Light Horse and the Calcutta Scottish against a Nazi German merchant ship, the Ehrenfels, which had been transmitting information to U-boats from Mormugao Harbour in neutral Portugal 's territory of Goa .[3] [4]
After the war he became commander of the 26th Gurkha Infantry Brigade in November 1949 during the Malayan Emergency , brigadier on the general staff at the Military Training Directorate in September 1952 and Deputy Director of Military Operations at the War Office in November 1953.[5] Far East Land Forces in January 1956 and General Officer Commanding the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division in January 1958 before retiring in February 1961.[5]
Pugh was High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1964.[6] 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) from 1956 to 1969.[7]
In popular culture
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Gregory Peck played Pugh in the 1980 war film The Sea Wolves [8]
References
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^ "Private papers of Major-General Lewis Pugh CB, CBE, DSO" . Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 11 June 2020 .
^ Correia, Savio (11 March 2018). "Blitzkrieg in the Backyard: Goa's tryst with WW II" . Herald Goa . Retrieved 18 April 2020 .
^ Jon Zimmerman, Dwight (10 August 2013). "Operation Creek: SOE Enlists an "Over the Hill Gang" for a Mission" . Defense Media Network. Retrieved 12 December 2015 .
^ a b "Army Commands" (PDF) . Retrieved 7 June 2020 .
^ "No. 43286" . The London Gazette . 31 March 1964. p. 2849.
^ "2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)" . regiments.org. Archived from the original on 29 December 2005. Retrieved 14 February 2017 .
^ "The Sea Wolves" . IMDB. Retrieved 21 March 2021 .
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