Major-General Lewis Henry Owain Pugh CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars (18 May 1907 – 10 March 1981) was a British Army officer.
[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] He went on to be Chief of Staff for Far East Land Forces in January 1956 and General Officer Commanding the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division in January 1958 before retiring in February 1961.
[7] Gregory Peck played Pugh in the 1980 war film The Sea Wolves, which was based on Operation Creek.