Major John Sehmer MBE - Force 133 - Special Operations Executive

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Reference WMO/279221

Address:

Allied Special Forces Memorial Grove

National Memorial Arboretum

Croxall Road

Alrewas

Burton-on-Trent

DE13 7AR

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: John Sehmer was recruited into the SOE from the Royal Tank Regiment in January 1943. In April 1943 he was in charge of the SOE mission to the Royal Serbian Army in Yugoslavia. He was withdrawn in May 1944 in preparation for "Operation Windproof" and parachuted into Czechoslovakia during September 1944. Subsequently he was instructed to become head of the British Mission to the Slovak National Uprising. The Germans immediately resisted this uprising and he was captured along with the United States OSS mission with Naval Officer Lt. James Holt Greene and two others just after Christmas 1944. After capture he sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria and executed in January 1945. He was remembered here by his family on June 6th 2015.
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Major John Sehmer MBE 1913-1945 Royal Tank Regiment Force 133 Special Operations Executive Yugoslavia John Sehmer was recruited into the SOE in January 1943. In April 1943 he was in charge of the SOE mission to the Royal Serbian Army in Yugoslavia.

Major John Sehmer

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