SAS Wiehe, Jean Hyacenthe (Johnny)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Wiehe ​

• FORENAME

Jean Hyacenthe (Johnny) ​

• UNIT

1 SAS (D Squadron) ​

• RANK

Lieutenant ​

• NUMBER

183225​

• DATE OF DEATH

9th September 1965​

• AGE

49​

• GRAVESITE

Cimetiere de Pamplemousses, Pamplemousses, Mauritias​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Army Air Corps​

born 29.05.1916, Mauritius​

commissioned 2Lt Royal Engineers 7.1.1941​

resided Mauritius​

Op.Gain - WIA and POW 4.7.1944 - liberated from Paris hospital 1944 -​

DOW Mauritius​

not in Commonwealth War Graves records ​

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[Everall]

Correction- Lt JH (Johnny) Wiehe (183225), SAS died 9th September 1965, in Mauritius, of wounds received while behind the lines, in France, during WW2. (source 'SAS Band of Brothers', By Damian Lewis; Quercus, London 2020 :- 385pp). He was born in Mauritius in 1916~ same source as before.

 

[CIPFAMAN]

My wife is the daughter of Herbert Castelow MM who served with Johnny in the SAS and took part in the Garstin Stick mission. We have arranged to meet Johnny's relatives in Mauritius and to lay a wreath in a few months time. Damian Lewis expedited this, brilliant writer and a very good man.

 

[CIPFAMAN]

The visit was a very special event in our lives. Lt Weihe is certainly not forgotten in Mauritius!