Lt Colonel JPM Faure “Hannes”
Johannes Morkel Faure
- Rank
- Lt Colonel
- Honours
- DSO DFC & Bar
- Squadron
- No 324 Wing RAF
- School
- Hottentots Holland High School
- Born
- 1917
- Fate
- Survived the war. Died 1995
- In the book
- Pages 131, 132
From the book
SAAF Airmen in RAF Squadrons
Four of the five SAAF airmen who earned the DSO DFC & Bar. JPM Faure(left), JPD Human, DP Tilley and RHD Rogers (right) a SAAF Brigadier in 1972. Faure and Rogers flew Desert Air Force fighters, Human served briefly with 233 Wing Tilley, the only one who earned his decorations immediately flew Torpedo bombers.
SAAF Airmen in RAF Squadrons
Born in 1917, JPM Faure was educated at Hottentots Holland in Somerset West and earned his SAAF Wings in 1941. He flew Hurricanes and Spitfires, was awarded the “Distinguished Flying Cross” in March 1943, the “Distinguished Service Order “in March 1945 serving with the RAF’s 324 Wing and the “Bar” to his “Distinguished Flying Cross” was announced in July. Lt Colonel JPM “Hannes” Faure DSO DFC and Bar commanded Air Force Bases’s in the Western Cape after the war but political intrusion “forced” him out of the air force in 1950. He farmed in Somerset West and died in 1995.