If you would like to use IWM collections materials in a way that is not covered above, require a commercial licence, high-resolution copies, or have manipulation requests, please contact the Image and Film Licensing Team. At this time, it was still the President, not the coaches, who decided who was going to row in the boat. Earlier this month, Tim Koch wrote about John Steel Lewes, know to everyone as “Jock”, who went up to Christ Church, Oxford, in September 1933, where he took to the oar. 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.

A few years before, he spoke at the Unveiling of the Jock Lewes Memorial at an army base in Hereford. Their love letters were collected and published by Barford's son in 1995 and revealed their Nazi sympathies. He was hanged a year later in the Flossenbürg concentration camp, a couple of weeks before American troops entered the camp.

In the series, David was seen reading Mirren's response during an emotional scene as he struggled to come to terms with his friend's untimely death.

An article in the Courier Mail of Brisbane on 2 September 1933, listed the students who were on their way to England to attend various universities. Regarding Jock Lewes’s rowing career, he rowed in the second seat for Oxford in the 1936 Boat Race against Cambridge, which of course, was the year when the Light Blues were unbeatable with Ran Laurie at stroke and Jack Wilson in the seventh seat. The revelations feature in a BBC documentary airing tonight which is based on Ben Macintyre's book, Rogue Heroes. Fed and equipped by the secret patrols of the Long Range Desert Group, they, sometimes, remained behind enemy lines for two months at a time. Lewes was raised in Australia, where he enjoyed a rugged outdoor lifestyle, playing a range of sports and excelling particularly at rowing.In the documentary, it reveals how he sked her to marry him - with the stipulation that it would 'not be until the enemy has been relinquished' - and she replied in another note, accepting his offer. Jock Lewes, a young Welsh Guards officer, was at least equally responsible and yet, until now, his character and contribution have never been closely studied.